UFOMYST
CaseUnknown1973

Mt. Vernon, IN, USA

MADAR Event No. 4 ((NUFORC Note: Report submitted by Mr. Francis Ridge, experienced UFO investigator. PD))

Report quality: Moderate60/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (17 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
1973-11-01
Where
Mt. Vernon, IN, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
—
Geo
40.669, -85.824 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-mt-vernon-in-1973-1ca7a6
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

Mt. Vernon, IN logged 3 reports in the single month of November 1973.

In context

  • One of 87 documented reports from Mt. Vernon, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Indiana logged 15 sightings in 1973.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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