Alabama (rural), AL, USA
A report from rural Alabama in July 1973 described an extremely bright light in the sky near a power plant, lasting 1 hour.
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-07-01
- Where
- Alabama (rural), AL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 34.022, -86.046 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-alabama-rural-al-1973-ae1d03
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
- One of 2 documented reports from Alabama (rural), AL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Alabama logged 14 sightings in 1973.
Report
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