CaseCircle1959
El Sobrante, CA, USA
Bright, yellow/orange circle, 10 ft. in diameter, silent, slow moving, 5mph, 50 ft. above ground-2 minutes, chased & threw rocks at it.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1959-05-05
- Where
- El Sobrante, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 37.977, -122.295 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-el-sobrante-ca-1959-d026c4
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In context
- One of 5 documented reports from El Sobrante, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 11 sightings in 1959.
- Circle sightings ran at 10% during the 1950s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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