CaseOval1978
Candia, NH, USA
Very large object seen in mid October 1978
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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 (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-10-15
- Where
- Candia, NH, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 15- 20 mon
- Geo
- 43.078, -71.277 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-candia-nh-1978-94c2a7
Wave
Part of a wave
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In context
- Candia, NH shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 9 reports came from New Hampshire in 1978.
- In the 1970s, 6.9% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.