Hawthorne, CA, USA
one red orange jagged circle high up blue sky white spark coming off of it,staying in one spot.
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-02-02
- Where
- Hawthorne, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3 to 4 min.
- Geo
- 33.916, -118.353 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-hawthorne-ca-2009-487b60
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
- One of 16 documented reports from Hawthorne, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 647 sightings in 2009.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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