CaseCircle1972
Wigan (UK/England), United Kingdom
A witness in Wigan, England reported a small, white, round object traveling silently across the sky from north to south during a five-second sighting in June 1972.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (163 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-06-01
- Where
- Wigan (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5sec
- Geo
- 53.543, -2.637 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-wigan-uk-england-1972-aab576
In context
- Wigan (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 6 reports came from United Kingdom in 1972.
- In the 1970s, 10.5% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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