UFOMYST
CaseLight1973

Perth, NY, USA

Bright orange glowing stationary object

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (39 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-07-01
Where
Perth, NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
43.018, -74.194 · exact
Slug
light-over-perth-ny-1973-247a4d
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 Perth, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 11 sightings in 1973.
  • Light sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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