CaseCircle1972
Roanoke, VA, USA
Children see hovering craft above house
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (39 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-08-15
- Where
- Roanoke, VA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 minutes+
- Geo
- 37.271, -79.941 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-roanoke-va-1972-f9fe98
In context
- This is one of 59 reports logged in Roanoke, VA.
- This case is one of 2 Virginia reports filed in 1972.
- Circle craft made up 10.5% of 1970s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.