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CaseCircle1952

South Gate, CA, USA

I was about 11 years old at the time, and a friend of the same age was visiting. We both saw what look like a halo in the sky. Within

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1952-07-15
Where
South Gate, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
33.955, -118.212 · exact
Slug
circle-over-south-gate-ca-1952-1bb288
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1952

    The 1952 Flap & the Washington Merry-Go-Round

    United States, focal point Washington D.C.

    The biggest official flap in U.S. history. On the weekends of July 19-20 and 26-27, unknowns tracked on radar at Washington National Airport and Andrews AFB — with simultaneous visual and airborne confirmations —…

    Open wave →

In context

  • South Gate, CA has 17 sightings on file here.
  • 1952 brought 7 reports from California.
  • The 1950s skewed 10% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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