CaseCircle2014

Sacramento, CA, USA

Very high in a perfectly clear blue sky appeared to be round lights 2, round or disc shaped moving in and out of view then vanishing.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-02-24
Where
Sacramento, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
38.582, -121.494 · exact
Slug
circle-over-sacramento-ca-2014-fd8a26
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

Sacramento, CA logged 4 reports in the single month of February 2014.

In context

  • One of 304 documented reports from Sacramento, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 869 sightings in 2014.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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