CaseCircle2012

Westminster, CA, USA

Red glowing object traveling through the Westminster California sky

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-07-04
Where
Westminster, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3-5 minutes
Geo
33.759, -118.007 · exact
Slug
circle-over-westminster-ca-2012-4e8023
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

  • This is one of 23 reports logged in Westminster, CA.
  • This case is one of 758 California reports filed in 2012.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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