CaseOval1974
New Rochelle, NY, USA
Close encounters of the real kind (space craft) for at least one minute about 100 yards right over my head
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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
- Moderate witness text (106 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-f161a6
In context
- New Rochelle, NY shows up 24 times across the archive.
- 14 reports came from New York in 1974.
- In the 1970s, 6.9% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate 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.