CaseOval1972
Continental Divide, USA
A witness near the Continental Divide reported an oval-shaped object during a sighting lasting three to five minutes in June 1972, describing the encounter as personally life-changing.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (184 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-06-30
- Where
- Continental Divide, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 35.425, -108.315 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-continental-divide-1972-88d683
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Continental Divide, USA.
- This case is one of 1 USA reports filed in 1972.
- Oval craft made up 6.9% of 1970s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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