CaseCircle2002
Los Angeles, CA, USA
What I saw was orange and white light radiating from one and only one cloud in the sky and it was not the sun or moon.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (118 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-10-14
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 to 20 Minutes
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-los-angeles-ca-2002-ee46a9
In context
- Los Angeles, CA shows up 521 times across the archive.
- 430 reports came from California in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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