CaseOval1959
New York City (Bronx), NY, USA
In 1959, a married couple in the Bronx, New York City, reported observing an oval-shaped object for about half an hour, an experience that changed how they viewed UFOs.
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (168 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1959-06-30
- Where
- New York City (Bronx), NY, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- Approx. 1/2 hr.
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-new-york-city-bronx-ny-1959-fadbbe
In context
- One of 100 documented reports from New York City (Bronx), NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 6 sightings in 1959.
- Oval sightings ran at 6.1% during the 1950s (archive average: 4.3%).
Report
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