CaseUnknown1973

Nags Head, NC, USA

A report from Nags Head, NC in July 1973 described a pulsing green light hovering low over the ocean horizon, lasting 5 minutes.

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 (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-07-23
Where
Nags Head, NC, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
35.957, -75.624 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-nags-head-nc-1973-bff0e2
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…

In context

  • Nags Head, NC shows up 26 times across the archive.
  • 11 reports came from North Carolina in 1973.

Report

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