CaseCircle2002
Temecula, CA, USA
Bright circular light that left a glowing tail with the object moving straight up and then hanging for moments before disappearing.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-10-14
- Where
- Temecula, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 00:02
- Geo
- 33.494, -117.148 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-temecula-ca-2002-81598d
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Temecula, CA reports filed in October 2002.
In context
- Temecula, CA shows up 80 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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