CaseCircle1954

Thrifty, TX, USA

6-25-1954, Red circle of light in Thrifty, Texas. USA.

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (54 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1954-06-25
Where
Thrifty, TX, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
45 seconds
Geo
31.811, -99.132 · exact
Slug
circle-over-thrifty-tx-1954-dc71c9
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1954

    The Great French Wave

    France, spilling into Italy, Spain, and Latin America

    The densest close-encounter wave ever recorded: landed domed objects on country roads, paralysis beams, and small suited occupants, reported by farmers and gendarmes across rural France at a rate of several per night.…

In context

  • Thrifty, TX shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 6 reports came from Texas in 1954.
  • In the 1950s, 10% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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