Last updated on May 1, 2024

Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1973

This page aggregates and analyzes all UFO sighting reports made in Mississippi during 1973.

How many Mississippi UFO sightings were there in 1973?

  • There were 4 officially reported UFO sightings in Mississippi in 1973.
  • In 1973, Mississippi ranked #23 on the list of states with the most UFO sightings for that year.
  • Adjusted for population size, Mississippi ranks #17 in the list of states with the most reported UFO sightings in 1973, with an average of 0.18 reports per 100,000 residents.

Mississippi Cities with the most UFO Sightings in 1973

Rank City Number of Reports
1 Tupelo, MS 1 UFO Reports
2 Moss Point, MS 1 UFO Reports
3 Ocean Springs, MS 1 UFO Reports
4 Pascagoula, MS 1 UFO Reports

Mississippi UFO Sightings Analysis

We analyzed all 4 UFO sighting reports in Mississippi from 1973 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:

Mississippi UFO Sighting Reports in 1973

This is a sampling of 20 Mississippi UFO reports from 1973, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.

You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).

Pascagoula, MS

Full Report Text:

I was stationed at the coastguard base in pascagoula mississippi, when we were talking about the hickson case where in the 1970s two men were abducted on the shores of the pascagoula river,, it turns out the same day the coast guard was called out to check out a metal disk on the bottom of the pascgoula river, nere the boat docks,, they went out and found it, they took a boat ore and banged the top of it,, and it was hollow clanged loudly after that they saw it move off down river under water. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).

10/15/73 12:00 AM

UFO Shape: disk

Lasted:

Report

Tupelo, MS

Full Report Text:

Father and Daughter sees disc over Tupelo, Ms. As I sat in my car with my small daughter in the evening at my residence in Tupelo, Ms, a disc-shaped craft was observed moving swiftly from south to north. My little daughter saw it first coming from the south and pointed it out to me, then I observed it for about 4 seconds to the east of our position.

It appeared to be approx. 1000 ft. high.

I was 30 years old at that time.

10/08/73 6:30 PM

UFO Shape: disk

Lasted: 4 sec

Report

Moss Point, MS

Full Report Text:

I was 7 at the time of the sighting. I was riding my bike on our street when I looked at our house and noticed green smoke above our house. I told my cousin who was 6 and in the front yard.

I went in the house and told my mother about it. I remember she was frying chicken and at first did not believe me but she finally came outside with me and saw the same thing. The smoke had almost all faded away when this object apeared out of nowhere above our house.

It looked close enough you could have thrown a rock up at it and hit it. I assume we were looking up at the bottom of it, it was round and glowing like a full moon, the color was sort of a white or gray, it looked metalic. I remember there were several neighbors around that saw it.

My father came home and he saw it, I remember him saying "come on down here" and my mother telling him to shutup. It suddenly disapeared before our eyes, I don't think it vanished but it just moved away very fast. After it vanished the green smoke apeared again and then slowly faded away.

It repeated this again later, maybe an hour, im not sure, my mother had called the police, but it had vanished again by the time they got there. She even called Keesler Air Force Base to see if there was any weather balloons out or anything and they said no. I remember later the same night the door bell started ringing rappidly and it was 2 teenage girls very scared saying that they had seen a ufo but it was not above our house like we had seen it was a little distance from them and they could see the side of it, I remember them saying it had blinking lights around the side, I dont remember what colors and they said it was moving and an airplane was moving toward it and it suddenly disapeared.

Later after the girls left, we were looking up in the air in the front yard and we saw a a orange colored streak in the air above us but this looked a great distance in the air, high or higher than an airplane, the object making the streak was round and also looked orange and then it looked like it made a couple of small circles and the object got smaller and smaller and disapeared.The object never made a sound any of the times we saw it. I was only 7 at the time but it seemed like it was a couple days later when the Pascagoula ufo incident occured where the 2 men where abducted by aliens.

I sometimes tell people what I saw, some believe me and others get a laugh out of it, but I don't get mad at them because if I hadn't seen it I might be sceptical about ufo's and life on other planets. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).

09/10/73 5:00 PM

UFO Shape: circle

Lasted: 3 hours overall approx.

Report

Ocean Springs, MS

Full Report Text:

The object was triangle in shape and had two white lights in the front and several in the back. Was walking home from my cousin house around 8:00 PM when I came to the foot trail that we had used for many years. At the entrance to the trail was and still is today a security light, as I got close something told me to look up as I did I saw a triangle shape object about 12 feet or so moving very slowly North above the tree tops and making no sound what so ever.

This object had two white lights on either side and appeared to be black in color as far as the size I would have to say it was huge, as I was amazed to see something that big and moving as slow as it was. I watch it for about a second or so and ran back to get my cousin. When we both got back outside we were looking at the back in, it have several very bright white light in the back maybe five or six and was still moving very slowly toward the north.

We watch it for about 5 min or so until it was out of sight. We contact the local Air Force Base to enquire about what we had seen, but did not get any answers. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.

PD)).

04/28/73 8:00 PM

UFO Shape: triangle

Lasted: 5 min or so

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Mississippi UFO Sightings From 1973 By Shape

This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.

Shape / Appearance Sightings % Of Total
Disk 2 reported sightings 50.00% of all reports
Circle 1 reported sightings 25.00% of all reports
Triangle 1 reported sightings 25.00% of all reports

Mississippi UFO Sightings From 1973 By Month

This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.

Month Sightings % Of Total
October 2 reported sightings 50.00% of all reports
September 1 reported sightings 25.00% of all reports
April 1 reported sightings 25.00% of all reports

Mississippi UFO Sightings From 1973 By Weekday

This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.

Weekday Sightings % Of Total
Monday 3 reported sightings 75.00% of all reports
Saturday 1 reported sightings 25.00% of all reports

Mississippi UFO Sightings From 1973 By Date (Top 5)

This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.

Date Sightings % Of Total
10/08/73 1 reported sightings 25.00% of all reports
09/10/73 1 reported sightings 25.00% of all reports
04/28/73 1 reported sightings 25.00% of all reports
10/15/73 1 reported sightings 25.00% of all reports

Mississippi UFO Sightings From 1973 By Time

This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.

Time Of Day Hours Sightings % Of Total
Evening 16:00 - 19:59 2 reported sightings 50.00% of all reports
Night 20:00 - 23:59 1 reported sightings 25.00% of all reports
Late night 00:00 - 03:59 1 reported sightings 25.00% of all reports

All Mississippi Cities with reported UFO sightings in 1973

These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Mississippi, in 1973

City Number of Reports View Reports
Tupelo 1 UFO Reports Tupelo UFO Sightings in 1973
Moss Point 1 UFO Reports Moss Point UFO Sightings in 1973
Ocean Springs 1 UFO Reports Ocean Springs UFO Sightings in 1973
Pascagoula 1 UFO Reports Pascagoula UFO Sightings in 1973

Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Mississippi

These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Mississippi.

Year Number of Reports View Reports
2024 2 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2024
2023 24 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2023
2022 21 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2022
2021 17 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2021
2020 27 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2020
2019 33 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2019
2018 25 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2018
2017 25 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2017
2016 32 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2016
2015 41 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2015
2014 44 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2014
2013 40 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2013
2012 46 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2012
2011 23 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2011
2010 20 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2010
2009 29 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2009
2008 25 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2008
2007 26 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2007
2006 18 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2006
2005 22 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2005
2004 23 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2004
2003 16 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2003
2002 13 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2002
2001 25 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2001
2000 16 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2000
1999 18 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1999
1998 7 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1998
1997 6 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1997
1996 1 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1996
1995 9 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1995
1994 4 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1994
1993 6 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1993
1992 3 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1992
1991 2 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1991
1989 6 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1989
1988 3 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1988
1987 3 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1987
1986 1 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1986
1984 1 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1984
1983 1 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1983
1982 2 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1982
1981 1 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1981
1979 4 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1979
1978 6 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1978
1977 10 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1977
1976 4 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1976
1975 6 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1975
1974 5 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1974
1973 4 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1973
1972 3 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1972
1971 1 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1971
1970 1 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1970
1969 4 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1969