CaseCircle2003
Salinas, CA, USA
I was not the actual witness but the news stations were discussing the incident for hours and the object was reported from Sacramento,C
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-11-20
- Where
- Salinas, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 Seconds
- Geo
- 36.678, -121.656 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-salinas-ca-2003-3d5ad7
In context
- Salinas, CA shows up 51 times across the archive.
- 599 reports came from California in 2003.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.