CaseDisk1972
Ottawa (Canada), ON, Canada
I have lived with this event my whole life and to this day even as a retired Military Air Traffic Controller, I remember the event like
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-11-07
- Where
- Ottawa (Canada), ON, Canada
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 60 seconds
- Geo
- 45.411, -75.698 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-ottawa-canada-on-1972-ff85b6
In context
- Ottawa (Canada), Canada shows up 123 times across the archive.
- 10 reports came from Canada in 1972.
- In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.