CaseCross1969

Oroville, WA, USA

A witness in Oroville, Washington reported a three-to-four-foot, gunmetal-colored cross-shaped object that produced a loud noise and appeared to shake their home in March 1969, over two minutes.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (194 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1969-03-15
Where
Oroville, WA, USA
Shape
Cross
Duration
2min
Geo
48.939, -119.436 · exact
Slug
cross-over-oroville-wa-1969-02e224

In context

  • This is one of 8 reports logged in Oroville, WA.
  • This case is one of 5 Washington reports filed in 1969.
  • Cross craft made up 0.2% of 1960s reports, vs 0.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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