UFOMYST
CaseSphere1973

Bufkin, IN, USA

Blue and green object with humming noise observed near Mt. Vernon. ((NUFORC Note: Report by Francis Ridge, UFO investigator. 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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-11-01
Where
Bufkin, IN, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
37.988, -87.846 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-bufkin-in-1973-388e3b
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

  • Bufkin, IN shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 15 reports came from Indiana in 1973.
  • In the 1970s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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