UFOMYST
CaseOval1997

Albany (about 10 minutes from), OR, USA

Oval shaped silver object sighted in the sky at 11:45am off of interstate 5.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-02
Where
Albany (about 10 minutes from), OR, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
7 seconds
Geo
44.637, -123.106 · exact
Slug
oval-over-albany-about-10-minutes-from-or-1997-5959d2
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Albany (about 10 minutes from), OR in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Oregon logged 37 sightings in 1997.
  • Oval sightings ran at 3.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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