CaseOval1979
Margate, FL, USA
Night, black, silent, round, oval, pulsating lights on edge, very close proximity
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-06-01
- Where
- Margate, FL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 26.245, -80.206 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-margate-fl-1979-b87ac3
In context
- This is one of 12 reports logged in Margate, FL.
- This case is one of 11 Florida reports filed in 1979.
- Oval craft made up 6.9% of 1970s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
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.