CaseCircle1960
La Verne, CA, USA
In July 1960, numerous witnesses near La Verne, California, reported two yellowish-orange circular objects in the sky, an account also covered by a local newspaper.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (164 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1960-07-15
- Where
- La Verne, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 min
- Geo
- 34.101, -117.768 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-la-verne-ca-1960-606046
In context
- La Verne, CA shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 10 reports came from California in 1960.
- In the 1960s, 10.1% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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