CaseCircle1959
Arvada, CO, USA
In 1959, a witness in Arvada, Colorado, reported a small, round object at high altitude near the Rocky Flats site, visible in the sky for about an hour.
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (152 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1959-06-05
- Where
- Arvada, CO, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 60 minutes
- Geo
- 39.803, -105.087 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-arvada-co-1959-da7bbd
In context
- Arvada, CO has 55 sightings on file here.
- 1959 brought 1 reports from Colorado.
- The 1950s skewed 10% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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