CaseOval1998
San Marcos, CA, USA
Friend and I were driving down the highway...moderate traffic. I noticed the aircraft first, it was hoovering over the freeway about 30
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-08-12
- Where
- San Marcos, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- about 10 minutes
- Geo
- 33.143, -117.166 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-san-marcos-ca-1998-7f9a18
In context
- San Marcos, CA has 26 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 232 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 3.6% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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