UFOMYST
CaseSphere1973

Bufkin, IN, USA

Two orange-red balls of light that hovered low to the ground in the west for about six minutes. ((NUFORC Note: F. Ridge report. PD))

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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (95 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-11-28
Where
Bufkin, IN, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
6 minutes
Geo
37.988, -87.846 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-bufkin-in-1973-080eab
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

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Bufkin, IN.
  • This case is one of 15 Indiana reports filed in 1973.
  • Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 1970s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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