Valdosta, GA, USA
Clear sunny day in Valdosta, was walking on the edge of a peanut field, was facing south-west looking at another field directly behind
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-07-29
- Where
- Valdosta, GA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 5 SECONDS
- Geo
- 30.833, -83.280 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-valdosta-ga-1978-064a15
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In context
- This is one of 23 reports logged in Valdosta, GA.
- This case is one of 7 Georgia reports filed in 1978.
- Other craft made up 6.5% of 1970s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
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.