CaseCircle1971
Monterey Park, CA, USA
A witness in Monterey Park, California reported bluish-white circular lights at high altitude to the southeast, during a sighting lasting three to five minutes in November 1971.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (177 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-11-12
- Where
- Monterey Park, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 34.063, -118.123 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-monterey-park-ca-1971-c9a200
In context
- Monterey Park, CA shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 23 reports came from California in 1971.
- In the 1970s, 10.5% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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