CaseOval1982
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Small flying "metal Death Stars"
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (32 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1982-08-17
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-los-angeles-ca-1982-d30222
In context
- This is one of 521 reports logged in Los Angeles, CA.
- This case is one of 34 California reports filed in 1982.
- Oval craft made up 5.2% of 1980s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
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.