Sonoma, CA, USA
An extremelly bright circular orange/amber light traveled NW to SW pausing for 20 sec. 3x. Not far away
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 510s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-07-29
- Where
- Sonoma, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 7-10min
- Geo
- 38.292, -122.458 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-sonoma-ca-2006-96faf7
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Sonoma, CA reports filed in July 2006.
In context
- Sonoma, CA shows up 33 times across the archive.
- 561 reports came from California in 2006.
- 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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