CaseCircle1954
Pasadena, CA, USA
An incandescent white circular object passed over Pasadena, CA and ejected a smaller version of itself.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1954-06-30
- Where
- Pasadena, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 34.148, -118.145 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-pasadena-ca-1954-326c29
Wave
Part of a wave
The Great French Wave
France, spilling into Italy, Spain, and Latin America
The densest close-encounter wave ever recorded: landed domed objects on country roads, paralysis beams, and small suited occupants, reported by farmers and gendarmes across rural France at a rate of several per night.…
In context
- This is one of 56 reports logged in Pasadena, CA.
- This case is one of 12 California reports filed in 1954.
- Circle craft made up 10% of 1950s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
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.