Jefferson, IA, USA
A report from Jefferson, IA in September 1973 described an oval object, after which two witnesses reported an unexplained four-hour gap in their memory, lasting 4 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: 14400s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (169 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-09-16
- Where
- Jefferson, IA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 4 hours
- Geo
- 42.015, -94.377 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-jefferson-ia-1973-643f3b
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
- Jefferson, IA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 4 reports came from Iowa in 1973.
- In the 1970s, 6.9% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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