Out of 720 listings worldwide for 1973, 225 were in Europe, mainly in the West. Immediately following the American wave of October 1973, European activity doubled in December, with some 50 reports for December alone. For the entire year, reports are most common in France (82), Britain (54), Spain/Portugal (23) and Italy (21). One man in Belgium was terrified by a "flying steeple with windows." Seven people reported a flying flower pot with antennas. A witness in Vilvoorde, Belgium reported a little man with a "metal detector" scanning his enclosed garden. This figure reportedly walked vertically up and over a tall stone fence as if immune to gravity. These ufo sightings maps were generated by Larry Hatch's *U* UFO Database Program.

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