CaseCircle2009

Santa Clara, CA, USA

Santa Clara cal two small object flashing over valley my be mapping us.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (71 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-08-01
Where
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
20 mln
Geo
37.354, -121.955 · exact
Slug
circle-over-santa-clara-ca-2009-ce2a49
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…

In context

  • One of 37 documented reports from Santa Clara, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 647 sightings in 2009.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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