CaseCircle1969
Chariton, IA, USA
It was disk shaped and brilliant white on the bottom,flew at a high rate of speed and changed direction at 90 degree turns.
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 (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1969-07-10
- Where
- Chariton, IA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 min.
- Geo
- 41.014, -93.307 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-chariton-ia-1969-124837
In context
- Chariton, IA has 4 sightings on file here.
- 1969 brought 1 reports from Iowa.
- The 1960s skewed 10.1% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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