CaseCircle1976
West Liberty, IA, USA
Circular orb sighting at close range (about 25 feet) that moved in a straight line floating above the ground
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 18s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1976-07-15
- Where
- West Liberty, IA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15-20 seconds
- Geo
- 41.570, -91.264 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-west-liberty-ia-1976-3d420f
In context
- One of 2 documented reports from West Liberty, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Iowa logged 3 sightings in 1976.
- Circle sightings ran at 10.5% during the 1970s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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