Hayward, CA, USA
A witness in Hayward, California reported five bright, gold, circular objects at close range, observed for about 20 minutes in June 1947.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (137 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-06-20
- Where
- Hayward, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 37.669, -122.081 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-hayward-ca-1947-c92102
Part of a wave
The Summer of the Saucers
United States (nationwide within two weeks of Arnold)
Kenneth Arnold's June 24 sighting near Mt. Rainier — nine crescent objects 'skipping like saucers' — was misrendered by the press as 'flying saucers', and within days America saw them everywhere. On July 8, Roswell Army…
In context
- Hayward, CA shows up 71 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from California in 1947.
- In the 1940s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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