UFOMYST
CaseCircle1973

Schenectady, NY, USA

MASSIVE UFO OVER MAIN GENERAL ELECTRIC PLANT IN UPSTATE NY IN 1973.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-06-01
Where
Schenectady, NY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
very long
Geo
42.814, -73.940 · exact
Slug
circle-over-schenectady-ny-1973-7d141b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1973

    The Great 1973 Flap

    United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest

    With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 25 reports logged in Schenectady, NY.
  • This case is one of 11 New York reports filed in 1973.
  • Circle craft made up 10.5% of 1970s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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