CaseOval1974
New Rochelle, NY, USA
Close Encounters of the real kind (space craft) flied right over my head within a 100 yards traveling less than 5 miles an hour
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-08-10
- Where
- New Rochelle, NY, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 40.911, -73.782 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-new-rochelle-ny-1974-500a16
In context
- New Rochelle, NY has 24 sightings on file here.
- 1974 brought 14 reports from New York.
- The 1970s skewed 6.9% 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.