CaseChanging1974
Fossil, OR, USA
((HOAX??)) The object at a distance looked like a Ferris wheel with multiple colors of red green blue yellow.
Report quality: Low17/100
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: 198000s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 1974-10-05
- Where
- Fossil, OR, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 55 hours
- Geo
- 44.998, -120.216 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-fossil-or-1974-2f1420
In context
- Fossil, OR has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1974 brought 4 reports from Oregon.
- The 1970s skewed 1% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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