CaseCircle2002
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Small, high-altitude reflective object moving steadily to the south over Santa Cruz, CA.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-11-01
- Where
- Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 36.974, -122.031 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-santa-cruz-ca-2002-e944f2
In context
- Santa Cruz, CA has 76 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 430 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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