UFOMYST
CaseOval1977

Columbia, NC, USA

As I stood in my yard the object came toward me. Hovered above my yard at 100ft for ten mins. Rotated west and moved on.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-06-17
Where
Columbia, NC, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
15 min
Geo
35.918, -76.252 · exact
Slug
oval-over-columbia-nc-1977-84556c
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Columbia, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 6 sightings in 1977.
  • Oval sightings ran at 6.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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