CaseCircle1960
Belmont, NY, USA
In 1960, a witness in Belmont, New York, reported a bright circular light following a slow zigzag path from the horizon toward the zenith before making a right-angle turn.
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (171 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1960-08-10
- Where
- Belmont, NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15-20 minutes
- Geo
- 42.223, -78.034 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-belmont-ny-1960-2122f6
In context
- Belmont, NY has 4 sightings on file here.
- 1960 brought 7 reports from New York.
- The 1960s skewed 10.1% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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