CaseCircle1971
Karnes County, TX, USA
A circular object was reported over an open-pit uranium mine in Karnes County, Texas, in June 1971, observed for about three minutes.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-06-15
- Where
- Karnes County, TX, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 28.906, -97.859 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-karnes-county-tx-1971-6b6fee
In context
- Karnes County, TX shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 8 reports came from Texas in 1971.
- In the 1970s, 10.5% 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.