CaseCircle1974
Gold Beach, OR, USA
Ball of light shining a cone of light on the beach.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-08-15
- Where
- Gold Beach, OR, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 42.407, -124.422 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-gold-beach-or-1974-0127a1
In context
- Gold Beach, OR has 8 sightings on file here.
- 1974 brought 4 reports from Oregon.
- The 1970s skewed 10.5% circle reports; the archive-wide figure 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.