CaseOval1974
Saltspring Island (Canada), BC, Canada
Silent. Approx 50 mph speed.50' off.the ocean. Approx 1/2 mile away. Silver with 45 degree upturned corners. Passed.low.over the water
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-07-15
- Where
- Saltspring Island (Canada), BC, Canada
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 48.812, -123.497 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-saltspring-island-canada-bc-1974-41f323
In context
- Saltspring Island (Canada), Canada has 2 sightings on file here.
- 1974 brought 14 reports from Canada.
- The 1970s skewed 6.9% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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