Merced, CA, USA
Circular, shiny, reflective object clearly observed in sky on August 9, 2013 at 11:00 am by several witnesses
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: 12600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-08-09
- Where
- Merced, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3.5 hours
- Geo
- 37.302, -120.483 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-merced-ca-2013-7086fb
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 34 documented reports from Merced, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 728 sightings in 2013.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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