CaseCircle1961
Bakersfield, CA, USA
Round red glowing object in the night sky...changed colors......and did not seem to be very high......
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1961-11-11
- Where
- Bakersfield, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 35.373, -119.019 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-bakersfield-ca-1961-68b1f1
In context
- Bakersfield, CA shows up 140 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from California in 1961.
- In the 1960s, 10.1% 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.