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

  • 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…

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.