CaseOval1968
State College, PA, USA
A witness in State College, Pennsylvania reported a bright oval object, roughly twice the size of a house, low to the ground in June 1968, during a brief two-second sighting.
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (174 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-06-06
- Where
- State College, PA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- ~2 seconds
- Geo
- 40.793, -77.860 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-state-college-pa-1968-2739da
In context
- State College, PA shows up 34 times across the archive.
- 10 reports came from Pennsylvania in 1968.
- In the 1960s, 6.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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