CaseOval1968
Elk Grove, CA, USA
A witness in Elk Grove, California reported an oval-shaped object in June 1968 that reportedly left a trail of glowing material extending to a nearby barn, during a thirty-minute sighting.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (188 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-06-05
- Where
- Elk Grove, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 38.409, -121.372 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-elk-grove-ca-1968-75de53
In context
- One of 46 documented reports from Elk Grove, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 32 sightings in 1968.
- Oval sightings ran at 6.6% during the 1960s (archive average: 4.3%).
Report
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