UFOMYST
CaseCircle2013

Placerville, CA, USA

A large orange orb in night sky broke up into five small lights, slowly fell toward the ground

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-04-16
Where
Placerville, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
38.730, -120.799 · exact
Slug
circle-over-placerville-ca-2013-1b72e4
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 29 documented reports from Placerville, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 728 sightings in 2013.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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