Anderson, CA, USA
Neon orange lights took off in northwestern upward trajectory and then disappeared. The first craft split into two separate circular or
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-02-29
- Where
- Anderson, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.448, -122.298 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-anderson-ca-2020-923b9f
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Anderson, CA shows up 24 times across the archive.
- 622 reports came from California in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 11.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
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.