Porterville, CA, USA
big red ball like object with littler star like objects zooming around
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (70 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-10-16
- Where
- Porterville, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15-20 mins
- Geo
- 36.065, -119.017 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-porterville-ca-2005-321c51
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…
Local cluster
Porterville, CA logged 3 reports in the single month of October 2005.
In context
- One of 36 documented reports from Porterville, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 539 sightings in 2005.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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