CaseCircle1972
Auburn, AL, USA
Bright globe appeared suddenly, animals terrified until globe appeared and vanished suddenly in night sky.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-08-12
- Where
- Auburn, AL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 32.610, -85.481 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-auburn-al-1972-82e435
In context
- Auburn, AL shows up 14 times across the archive.
- 6 reports came from Alabama in 1972.
- In the 1970s, 10.5% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.