UFOMYST
CaseFormation1973

Hampton, VA, USA

A report from Hampton, VA in June 1973 described a low-flying, triangular formation of silent blue lights, lasting 1 to 2 minutes.

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-06-15
Where
Hampton, VA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
1 to 2 minutes
Geo
37.030, -76.345 · exact
Slug
formation-over-hampton-va-1973-43eddb
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 37 documented reports from Hampton, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 5 sightings in 1973.
  • Formation sightings ran at 1.3% during the 1970s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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