Los Gatos, CA, USA
Large elipsoid object (greenish hugh) hovering and slowly moving forward just above the treeline (approx. 150 feet) in Los Gatos foothi
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-03-01
- Where
- Los Gatos, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1 min / approx.
- Geo
- 37.227, -121.975 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-los-gatos-ca-1978-9e09b4
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In context
- Los Gatos, CA has 11 sightings on file here.
- 1978 brought 60 reports from California.
- The 1970s skewed 6.9% oval reports; the archive-wide figure 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.