CaseCircle2017

Baldwin Park, CA, USA

I glanced up my eye caught a Black object in the sky. I thought it was a lunar eclipse but amazing it was not...it was a circle…

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 (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-12-22
Where
Baldwin Park, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
34.085, -117.961 · exact
Slug
circle-over-baldwin-park-ca-2017-c022e4
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Baldwin Park, CA has 13 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 594 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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