UFOMYST
CaseOval1997

Jim Thorpe, PA, USA

The turn was that of a very sharp L

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (35 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-03
Where
Jim Thorpe, PA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
less than 1 min.
Geo
40.876, -75.732 · exact
Slug
oval-over-jim-thorpe-pa-1997-03741e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Jim Thorpe, PA has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 40 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 1990s skewed 3.6% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.