CaseCircle1957

Albany, CA, USA

What looked like a moving star and a stationary star seemed to collide, whereupon the stationary star also began to move.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (121 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1957-06-30
Where
Albany, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
~1 minute
Geo
37.887, -122.298 · exact
Slug
circle-over-albany-ca-1957-10a839

In context

  • Albany, CA has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 1957 brought 11 reports from California.
  • The 1950s skewed 10% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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