CaseCircle2002
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
We saw approx 10-15 (maybe more) little orbs above a light plane. At first they were in a V- formation then stretched out to an ungulat
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-11-10
- Where
- Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 34.421, -119.698 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-santa-barbara-ca-2002-b6cd09
In context
- Santa Barbara, CA shows up 117 times across the archive.
- 430 reports came from California in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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