UFOMYST
CaseLight1973

Brownfield, TX, USA

Silent ,bright hovering light, seemed to be teasing us, for miles of desolate highway.

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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (86 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-05-01
Where
Brownfield, TX, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
90 min
Geo
33.181, -102.274 · exact
Slug
light-over-brownfield-tx-1973-d5cddb
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Brownfield, TX.
  • This case is one of 24 Texas reports filed in 1973.
  • Light craft made up 11.6% of 1970s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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