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CaseOval1997

New York City, NY, USA

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Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-14
Where
New York City, NY, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
—
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
oval-over-new-york-city-ny-1997-715ed4
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • This is one of 176 reports logged in New York City, NY.
  • This case is one of 55 New York reports filed in 1997.
  • Oval craft made up 3.6% of 1990s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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