Bakersfield, CA, USA
saw a glowing object,I went to get my phone it sat above and as I recorded it, would it would go side to side as it spun in circles rea
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-12-31
- Where
- Bakersfield, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 35.373, -119.019 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-bakersfield-ca-2017-e41b16
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
- Bakersfield, CA shows up 140 times across the archive.
- 594 reports came from California in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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