UFOMYST
CaseOval1978

Phelan, CA, USA

3 bright ovals rise up slowly, stop, move one at a time at incredible speed across horizon, then stop again

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-08-01
Where
Phelan, CA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
34.426, -117.572 · exact
Slug
oval-over-phelan-ca-1978-1cec68
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • Phelan, 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

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