CaseCircle1957
Burlington, IA, USA
A witness in Burlington, Iowa reported a circular object moving slowly before abruptly changing direction and accelerating rapidly, over about 90 seconds in June 1957.
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (167 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1957-06-30
- Where
- Burlington, IA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 90 seconds
- Geo
- 40.808, -91.113 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-burlington-ia-1957-ccc859
In context
- One of 9 documented reports from Burlington, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Iowa logged 2 sightings in 1957.
- Circle sightings ran at 10% during the 1950s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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