UFOMYST
CaseCircle1990

San Jose, CA, USA

My Second Encounter.Close Encounter: 16 years after my first sighting. I had driven 1,000 miles from Spokane, WA where I was li

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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  • Duration parsed: 18300s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1990-08-15
Where
San Jose, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes or 5 hours
Geo
37.339, -121.895 · exact
Slug
circle-over-san-jose-ca-1990-413ee1
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

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In context

  • One of 277 documented reports from San Jose, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 48 sightings in 1990.
  • Circle sightings ran at 6.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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