CaseOval1998
Irvine (entering city from the South), CA, USA
As I was driving on freeway 5 north, moving along with traffic, I noticed in the sky an oval shaped silvery object flying above Irvine
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-11-20
- Where
- Irvine (entering city from the South), CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 3 Minutes
- Geo
- 33.669, -117.823 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-irvine-entering-city-from-the-south-ca-1998-1135d1
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Irvine (entering city from the South), CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 232 sightings in 1998.
- Oval sightings ran at 3.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 4.3%).
Report
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