CaseCircle1977

Marthasville, MO, USA

Huge craft with role after role of light on the bottom side

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-08-01
Where
Marthasville, MO, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
6 to 10 minutes
Geo
38.628, -91.058 · exact
Slug
circle-over-marthasville-mo-1977-53aa39
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • Marthasville, MO has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 1977 brought 6 reports from Missouri.
  • The 1970s skewed 10.5% circle reports; the archive-wide figure 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.