UFOMYST
CaseCircle2013

Canyon Lake, CA, USA

A large orange light. Bigger than a star, smaller than the moon at about a 30degree arc from the ground. It moved straight down for 5

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-12-12
Where
Canyon Lake, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
33.685, -117.273 · exact
Slug
circle-over-canyon-lake-ca-2013-9bea8e
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…

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In context

  • One of 10 documented reports from Canyon Lake, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 728 sightings in 2013.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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