CaseCircle1988
Goodyear, AZ, USA
Appeared to be rotating and circular in nature because the lights would appear and disappear.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-10-04
- Where
- Goodyear, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 33.435, -112.358 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-goodyear-az-1988-230906
In context
- Goodyear, AZ shows up 44 times across the archive.
- 11 reports came from Arizona in 1988.
- In the 1980s, 8.2% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.