Pasadena, CA, USA
A disk shaped object hovering in one spot over Pasadena, CA while da lit up bottom of object was circling while top of it wasn't moving
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-07-04
- Where
- Pasadena, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- approx. 1 minute
- Geo
- 34.148, -118.145 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-pasadena-ca-2012-a091c3
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…
In context
- This is one of 56 reports logged in Pasadena, CA.
- This case is one of 758 California reports filed in 2012.
- Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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