UFOMYST
CaseLight1973

West Allis, WI, USA

A report from West Allis, WI in June 1973 described a bright light that hovered before making a fast, right-angle turn upward, lasting 2-3 hours.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 9000s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (145 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-06-30
Where
West Allis, WI, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2-3 hours
Geo
43.017, -88.007 · exact
Slug
light-over-west-allis-wi-1973-637039
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

  • West Allis, WI has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 1973 brought 7 reports from Wisconsin.
  • The 1970s skewed 11.6% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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