UFOMYST
CaseCircle2004

Santee, CA, USA

Circular white object, Hovered and moved, alt. approx. 50,000 ft.,... Not a Drifting balloon

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-08-22
Where
Santee, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10-15 Min.
Geo
32.838, -116.974 · exact
Slug
circle-over-santee-ca-2004-75cf9e
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Santee, CA has 27 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 568 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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