UFOMYST
CaseOval1978

Baton Rouge, LA, USA

HUGE oval craft hovering over the treetops follows our car.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-15
Where
Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
30.443, -91.187 · exact
Slug
oval-over-baton-rouge-la-1978-84e576
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • Baton Rouge, LA has 68 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 6 reports from Louisiana.
  • The 1970s skewed 6.9% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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