CaseEgg1978

Gloucester (Canada), ON, Canada

Large football shaped object with no wings, no windows and lights were the wings should be, very close I could clearly see it.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (126 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-01-06
Where
Gloucester (Canada), ON, Canada
Shape
Egg
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
45.350, -75.633 · exact
Slug
egg-over-gloucester-canada-on-1978-c827de
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • Gloucester (Canada), Canada shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 15 reports came from Canada in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 0.9% of reports described a egg — the all-time rate is 0.9%.

Report

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