UFOMYST
CaseCircle2016

Half Moon Bay, CA, USA

Bright light in sky, moving and hovering, took off fast.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-07-26
Where
Half Moon Bay, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
37.464, -122.429 · exact
Slug
circle-over-half-moon-bay-ca-2016-5d6435
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Half Moon Bay, CA has 15 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 579 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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