La Porte, TX, USA
A report from La Porte, TX in June 1973 described a saucer-shaped object with a glowing orange light that vanished behind a cloud in broad daylight, lasting 1 minute.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (166 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-06-07
- Where
- La Porte, TX, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 29.666, -95.019 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-la-porte-tx-1973-23453a
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
- La Porte, TX has 5 sightings on file here.
- 1973 brought 24 reports from Texas.
- The 1970s skewed 22.6% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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