CaseCircle1960
Saugus, MA, USA
In 1960, a ten-year-old witness in Saugus, Massachusetts, reported a circular object in the sky that they and a companion agreed was not a weather balloon, for about five minutes.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (179 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1960-08-15
- Where
- Saugus, MA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 42.465, -71.010 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-saugus-ma-1960-cdda47
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In context
- This is one of 11 reports logged in Saugus, MA.
- This case is one of 3 Massachusetts reports filed in 1960.
- Circle craft made up 10.1% of 1960s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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