CaseOval1988
Whittier, CA, USA
UFO sighting one summer night back in the late 1980's.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-08-01
- Where
- Whittier, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 minute
- Geo
- 33.979, -118.033 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-whittier-ca-1988-837709
In context
- One of 62 documented reports from Whittier, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 30 sightings in 1988.
- Oval sightings ran at 5.2% during the 1980s (archive average: 4.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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