CaseCircle1959
Philadelphia, USA
In 1959, a witness in Philadelphia reported a silent, smoothly moving circular object flashing different colors that appeared to separate and rejoin in the sky.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (160 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1959-06-30
- Where
- Philadelphia, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 39.952, -75.164 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-philadelphia-1959-62333d
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In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Philadelphia, USA.
- This case is one of 1 USA reports filed in 1959.
- Circle craft made up 10% of 1950s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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