CaseCircle1981
Carmel, NY, USA
Diffuse white light morphs to large circle 100 ft dia.or possibly orb of many indescribable colors, shrinks to 25 ft dia., shoots off.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1981-10-15
- Where
- Carmel, NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- ~10 minutes
- Geo
- 41.430, -73.680 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-carmel-ny-1981-ef3d6e
In context
- Carmel, NY shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 6 reports came from New York in 1981.
- In the 1980s, 8.2% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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