Dunsmuir, CA, USA
Big, bright light that left tracers behind it, which abruptly stopped in the sky until it later blinked out of sight.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-10-31
- Where
- Dunsmuir, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 41.208, -122.272 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-dunsmuir-ca-2010-4a647c
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
- Dunsmuir, CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 605 reports came from California in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% 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.