CaseCircle1974
Athens, GA, USA
A report from Athens, GA in May 1974 described a bright red, circular light that remained stationary before taking off at great speed with no visible contrail, lasting 3 minutes.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (178 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-05-10
- Where
- Athens, GA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.961, -83.378 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-athens-ga-1974-26f7b6
In context
- This is one of 34 reports logged in Athens, GA.
- This case is one of 7 Georgia reports filed in 1974.
- Circle craft made up 10.5% of 1970s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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