UFOMYST
CaseOval1977

John Day, OR, USA

Large oval orange red craft seen in John Day.

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 (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-06-01
Where
John Day, OR, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
1 minute
Geo
44.416, -118.953 · exact
Slug
oval-over-john-day-or-1977-9b9d66
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 5 documented reports from John Day, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Oregon logged 6 sightings in 1977.
  • Oval sightings ran at 6.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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