UFOMYST
CaseSphere1973

Roanoke, VA, USA

Silver silent sphere seen in Roanoke, VA in 1973

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (48 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-02-02
Where
Roanoke, VA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1.5 minutes
Geo
37.271, -79.941 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-roanoke-va-1973-e4f558
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

  • Roanoke, VA shows up 59 times across the archive.
  • 5 reports came from Virginia in 1973.
  • In the 1970s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.