UFOMYST
CaseOval1977

Clearence Center, NY, USA

close encounter in ny

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (21 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-04-15
Where
Clearence Center, NY, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
3-5 min
Geo
—
Slug
oval-over-clearence-center-ny-1977-aec10b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Clearence Center, NY.
  • This case is one of 17 New York reports filed in 1977.
  • Oval craft made up 6.9% of 1970s reports, vs 4.3% 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.