UFOMYST
CaseCircle1947

Pereira (Colombia), Colombia

Arriving in the town of Periera in the middle of the day I looked up and there was this circular object in the sky that looked metallic

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 43200s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1947-10-16
Where
Pereira (Colombia), Colombia
Shape
Circle
Duration
12 hours
Geo
4.814, -75.695 · exact
Slug
circle-over-pereira-colombia-1947-b6fb9c
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1947

    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…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Pereira (Colombia), Colombia in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Colombia logged 2 sightings in 1947.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 1940s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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