Campbell, CA, USA
Orange glowing ball appeared in the sky then slowly moved around and disappeared
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-01-01
- Where
- Campbell, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 37.287, -121.950 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-campbell-ca-2022-99976b
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
- Campbell, CA shows up 29 times across the archive.
- 113 reports came from California in 2022.
- In the 2020s, 11.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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