UFOMYST
CaseOval1978

Ottawa, KS, USA

The UFO was shaped something like a foot ball the length of about 2 school busses but with many white and red lights on the underside

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-15
Where
Ottawa, KS, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
45 min
Geo
38.616, -95.268 · exact
Slug
oval-over-ottawa-ks-1978-3f1e61
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 5 documented reports from Ottawa, KS in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Kansas logged 3 sightings in 1978.
  • Oval sightings ran at 6.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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