UFOMYST
CaseDisk1973

Collierville, TN, USA

Group of about 20 sees UFO on clear day for about 5 minutes in 1973 in SW TENN.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (79 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-10-15
Where
Collierville, TN, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
35.042, -89.665 · exact
Slug
disk-over-collierville-tn-1973-e1ea60
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

  • One of 7 documented reports from Collierville, TN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Tennessee logged 6 sightings in 1973.
  • Disk sightings ran at 22.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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