CaseOval1956
Petaluma, CA, USA
Objects were several thousand feet in altitude and bounced around the sky basically overhead. I was 17 years old at the time. The Pet
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1956-03-01
- Where
- Petaluma, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 38.232, -122.637 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-petaluma-ca-1956-d8bbc5
In context
- This is one of 43 reports logged in Petaluma, CA.
- This case is one of 7 California reports filed in 1956.
- Oval craft made up 6.1% of 1950s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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