CaseCircle1998
Carmel, CA, USA
My friends and I were sitting on Carmel Beach facing west. It was pitch black outside. Approximately three to four miles of the cost we
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-25
- Where
- Carmel, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 39.978, -86.118 · fallback
- Slug
- circle-over-carmel-ca-1998-6d0e64
In context
- Carmel, CA shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 232 reports came from California in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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