CaseCircle2000
Orange, CA, USA
On a perfectly clear day I observed the shadow of an object 125-140 ft wide moving at 150 mph.
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: 18s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-07-15
- Where
- Orange, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15-20 sec.
- Geo
- 33.788, -117.853 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-orange-ca-2000-885759
In context
- Orange, CA has 43 sightings on file here.
- 2000 brought 439 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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