UFOMYST
CaseDisk1973

West Hazleton, PA, USA

A report from West Hazleton, PA in August 1973 described an object that descended and hovered overhead for an extended period, lasting one half hour.

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (149 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-08-12
Where
West Hazleton, PA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
one half hour
Geo
40.959, -75.996 · exact
Slug
disk-over-west-hazleton-pa-1973-26d8bb
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 1 documented reports from West Hazleton, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 15 sightings in 1973.
  • Disk sightings ran at 22.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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