CaseOval1997

Victoria (Saxe Point) (Canada), BC, Canada

It hovered for a long time and then streaked across the sky where it disapeared ina flash.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (90 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-23
Where
Victoria (Saxe Point) (Canada), BC, Canada
Shape
Oval
Duration
15 min
Geo
48.436, -123.352 · exact
Slug
oval-over-victoria-saxe-point-canada-bc-1997-2e1e38
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Victoria (Saxe Point) (Canada), Canada.
  • This case is one of 63 Canada reports filed in 1997.
  • Oval craft made up 3.6% of 1990s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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