CaseOval1970
Lake Wales, FL, USA
A driver near Lake Wales, Florida, reported being pulled over in December 1970 by an oval-shaped object displaying lights resembling those of a police vehicle, during a five-minute encounter.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (191 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1970-12-21
- Where
- Lake Wales, FL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 min.
- Geo
- 27.901, -81.586 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-lake-wales-fl-1970-40b96e
In context
- Lake Wales, FL has 35 sightings on file here.
- 1970 brought 12 reports from Florida.
- The 1970s skewed 6.9% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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