Hixson, TN, USA
Oval, brilliant lights, red glow, windows, metallic, no sound; After we lost sight of it and went to find it, it showed itself to us.
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-10-01
- Where
- Hixson, TN, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1 1/2 hours
- Geo
- 35.141, -85.233 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-hixson-tn-1973-99e755
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
- Hixson, TN has 14 sightings on file here.
- 1973 brought 6 reports from Tennessee.
- The 1970s skewed 6.9% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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