CaseCircle1968
New York City (Glen Oaks)(Queens), NY, USA
I saw a circular object with diameter about the size of a Little League infield and about 20 ft tall slowly rotating towards me at tree
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-08-12
- Where
- New York City (Glen Oaks)(Queens), NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-new-york-city-glen-oaks-queens-ny-1968-fa260d
In context
- New York City (Glen Oaks)(Queens), NY shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 8 reports came from New York in 1968.
- In the 1960s, 10.1% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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