UFOMYST
CaseRectangle1973

Scranton, PA, USA

Rectangular object moving at a very high rate of speed with no noise.

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (69 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-01-14
Where
Scranton, PA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
41.409, -75.665 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-scranton-pa-1973-c0ddfc
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Scranton, PA has 17 sightings on file here.
  • 1973 brought 15 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 1970s skewed 2.3% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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