CaseOval1976
Gulf of Mexico, FL, USA
I was on board Coast Guard Cutter Acushnet WMEC 176 when we encountered loss of electronic power while towing a electronic surveillance
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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 (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1976-06-01
- Where
- Gulf of Mexico, FL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- @15 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- oval-over-gulf-of-mexico-fl-1976-41a042
In context
- Gulf of Mexico, FL has 6 sightings on file here.
- 1976 brought 23 reports from Florida.
- The 1970s skewed 6.9% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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