CaseLight1973
St. Augustine, FL, USA
White light flies into brighter white light and both go straight up.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (68 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-03-01
- Where
- St. Augustine, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 60 seconds
- Geo
- 29.895, -81.315 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-st-augustine-fl-1973-607f83
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
- This is one of 80 reports logged in St. Augustine, FL.
- This case is one of 12 Florida reports filed in 1973.
- Light craft made up 11.6% of 1970s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.