UFOMYST
CaseSphere1973

Gainsville, GA, USA

A report from Gainesville, GA in June 1973 described a silver-gray, sphere-shaped object that moved slowly and silently, lasting 7-10 minutes.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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: 510s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (142 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-06-01
Where
Gainsville, GA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
7-10 minutes
Geo
—
Slug
sphere-over-gainsville-ga-1973-634a56
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Gainsville, GA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Georgia logged 7 sightings in 1973.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 6.1% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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