Ocean Springs, MS, USA
A report from Ocean Springs, MS in April 1973 described a triangular object with two white lights at the front and several more at the rear, lasting 5 minutes or so.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (165 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-04-28
- Where
- Ocean Springs, MS, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 min or so
- Geo
- 30.411, -88.828 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-ocean-springs-ms-1973-73cb1c
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Ocean Springs, MS shows up 15 times across the archive.
- 4 reports came from Mississippi in 1973.
- In the 1970s, 7.9% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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