CaseOval1968
Azores (U.S.S. Monrovia), Azores
A USO was reported near the Azores by observers aboard the USS Monrovia in May 1968, in the days following the sinking of the submarine USS Scorpion; the sighting lasted about 90 minutes.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (187 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-05-23
- Where
- Azores (U.S.S. Monrovia), Azores
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 90 min
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- oval-over-azores-u-s-s-monrovia-1968-d0a17a
In context
- Azores (U.S.S. Monrovia), Azores has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1968 brought 2 reports from Azores.
- The 1960s skewed 6.6% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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