CaseCircle1961
Santa Clara, CA, USA
In 1961, a witness in Santa Clara, California, reported a stationary circular object positioned directly overhead, remaining visible in the sky for about three hours.
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (166 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1961-01-01
- Where
- Santa Clara, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Geo
- 37.354, -121.955 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-santa-clara-ca-1961-2880a7
In context
- This is one of 37 reports logged in Santa Clara, CA.
- This case is one of 5 California reports filed in 1961.
- Circle craft made up 10.1% of 1960s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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