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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:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "disk" (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
- Monday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 75.00% of total).
- 10/08/73 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 25.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the evening, between the hours of 16:00 - 19:59 (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
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).
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)).
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.
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)).
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)).
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.