CaseDisk1973
Boone, NC, USA
Landing lights,lights around the object top and bottom, no noise,very fast and hovered.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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.
- Duration parsed: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-11-10
- Where
- Boone, NC, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 36.217, -81.675 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-boone-nc-1973-a764ff
Wave
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Boone, NC has 16 sightings on file here.
- 1973 brought 11 reports from North Carolina.
- The 1970s skewed 22.6% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.