CaseCircle2013

Pittsburg, CA, USA

I was happening to open my bedroom window, when a glare from a silver aircraft caught my eye. This is to the south, towards Clayton/Mou

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-06-12
Where
Pittsburg, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
90 seconds
Geo
38.028, -121.885 · exact
Slug
circle-over-pittsburg-ca-2013-899ba6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • This is one of 21 reports logged in Pittsburg, CA.
  • This case is one of 728 California reports filed in 2013.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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