CaseCircle1968
Hawthorne, CA, USA
A witness in Hawthorne, California reported a round, orange object with what appeared to be polished metal edges in October 1968, observed for about five minutes.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (162 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-10-10
- Where
- Hawthorne, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 MIN.
- Geo
- 33.916, -118.353 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-hawthorne-ca-1968-0357bf
In context
- Hawthorne, CA shows up 16 times across the archive.
- 32 reports came from California in 1968.
- In the 1960s, 10.1% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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