CaseOval1999

Ventura, CA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Ventura, CA, USA
Start: 1999-05-18
Location: Ventura, CA, USA

Oval shaped craft travelling e-w n/w, NO clearance or blinking lights seemed to be illuminated from inside. The color was ivory or yell

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: 4s (an atypical range)
Detailed witness text (135 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1999-05-18
Where: Ventura, CA, USA
Shape: Oval
Duration: 3-5 seconds
Geo: 34.278, -119.293 · exact
Slug: oval-over-ventura-ca-1999-f8c877

In context

Ventura, CA shows up 91 times across the archive.
407 reports came from California in 1999.
In the 1990s, 3.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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