CaseOval1997

East Woodstock, CT, USA

My brother and i were going down a road with my mother driving the car, when we happened to slow down to go around a sharp curve. my br

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-12-23
Where
East Woodstock, CT, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
5 seconds or less
Geo
41.984, -71.977 · exact
Slug
oval-over-east-woodstock-ct-1997-e843fb
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • East Woodstock, CT shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 12 reports came from Connecticut in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 3.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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