CaseFormation1973
Weslaco, TX, USA
06/15/1973+/- lubbock lights formation, Weslaco Texas, 10 +/- seconds, white light
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-06-15
- Where
- Weslaco, TX, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 26.160, -97.991 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-weslaco-tx-1973-78f81a
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
- Weslaco, TX shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 24 reports came from Texas in 1973.
- In the 1970s, 1.3% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
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