CaseCircle2002
Needles, CA, USA
I was driving west on I40, west of Needles, CA. about 3:30 am. There were many semi trucks on the road who probably saw this, too. It
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-04-17
- Where
- Needles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 34.848, -114.614 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-needles-ca-2002-9fd398
In context
- This is one of 8 reports logged in Needles, CA.
- This case is one of 430 California reports filed in 2002.
- Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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