UFOMYST
CaseOther1973

Plain, WA, USA

A witness in Plain, Washington reported cube-shaped objects landing and releasing small, shiny, silvery spheres, with large three-toed, bird-like footprints later found in the snow, in March 1973.

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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (196 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-03-12
Where
Plain, WA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
3 hrs
Geo
47.763, -120.657 · exact
Slug
other-over-plain-wa-1973-f2a319
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

  • One of 3 documented reports from Plain, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 9 sightings in 1973.
  • Other sightings ran at 6.5% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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