CaseDisk1961
Alpine, UT, USA
This sighting was in the early 1960s when I was 14 and had not heard of ufos yet, but watched it with friends for about 45 minutes.
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1961-06-01
- Where
- Alpine, UT, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 40.453, -111.778 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-alpine-ut-1961-df3cc1
In context
- Alpine, UT shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Utah in 1961.
- In the 1960s, 23.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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