San Bernardino, CA, USA
Sky was light up white glowing smoke orange blue very pretty, but very weird movement. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Report quality: Moderate53/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2017-12-22
- Where
- San Bernardino, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 34.108, -117.290 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-san-bernardino-ca-2017-4caaef
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
San Bernardino, CA logged 3 reports in the single month of December 2017.
In context
- One of 73 documented reports from San Bernardino, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 594 sightings in 2017.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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