UFOMYST
CaseOval1978

Zaandam (Netherlands), Netherlands

UFO-report from a sighting near Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Report quality: Low38/100

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
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-10-05
Where
Zaandam (Netherlands), Netherlands
Shape
Oval
Duration
00:02
Geo
52.439, 4.826 · fallback
Slug
oval-over-zaandam-netherlands-1978-fab48b
Wave

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Zaandam (Netherlands), Netherlands in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Netherlands logged 1 sightings in 1978.
  • Oval sightings ran at 6.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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