CaseCircle1955
Newtown Square, PA, USA
A witness in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania reported a round object crossing from the bottom to the top of the moon's disk in about four seconds, in August 1955.
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (159 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1955-08-06
- Where
- Newtown Square, PA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 39.987, -75.401 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-newtown-square-pa-1955-1b8fc7
In context
- Newtown Square, PA shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Pennsylvania in 1955.
- In the 1950s, 10% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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