UFOMYST
CaseOval1997

Great River, NY, USA

As I was leaving in my car from a building I happened to look up into the sky and noticed 6 hovering things. I stopped my car and got

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-15
Where
Great River, NY, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
40.721, -73.158 · exact
Slug
oval-over-great-river-ny-1997-b95aae
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Great River, NY.
  • This case is one of 55 New York reports filed in 1997.
  • Oval craft made up 3.6% of 1990s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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