CaseEgg1972
Fort Beaufort (South Africa), South Africa
Police officers near Fort Beaufort, South Africa reportedly fired shots at an egg-shaped object during a sighting lasting about two hours in June 1972.
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (151 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-06-26
- Where
- Fort Beaufort (South Africa), South Africa
- Shape
- Egg
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Geo
- -32.775, 26.634 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-fort-beaufort-south-africa-1972-2ec1a6
In context
- Fort Beaufort (South Africa), South Africa shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from South Africa in 1972.
- In the 1970s, 0.9% of reports described a egg — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
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