CaseCircle1968
San Jose, CA, USA
A witness in San Jose, California reported a circular, disk-shaped object with numerous lights hovering over a shopping center in July 1968, observed for one to two hours.
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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (171 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-07-20
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1-2 hours
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-san-jose-ca-1968-a71ec4
In context
- One of 277 documented reports from San Jose, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 32 sightings in 1968.
- Circle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 1960s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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