UFOMYST
CaseOval1978

Dallas, TX, USA

SIGHTING AT CLOSE RANGE

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 (23 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-05
Where
Dallas, TX, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
.30
Geo
32.783, -96.807 · exact
Slug
oval-over-dallas-tx-1978-1f7e8a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • Dallas, TX shows up 208 times across the archive.
  • 25 reports came from Texas in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 6.9% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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