CaseCircle1974
San Jose, CA, USA
First Encounter: I was 14 years old or so.Riding my bike home from a store and my brother 13, was with me on his bike. A semi-busy
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-05-15
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-san-jose-ca-1974-df6d42
In context
- San Jose, CA has 277 sightings on file here.
- 1974 brought 33 reports from California.
- The 1970s skewed 10.5% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
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.