CaseCircle2019

Clearlake, CA, USA

I was outside bbq. When I observed in the direction of lower lake a ball in the sky very bright. Did not move.

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-07-11
Where
Clearlake, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 hour
Geo
38.958, -122.626 · exact
Slug
circle-over-clearlake-ca-2019-5f781f
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

  • One of 14 documented reports from Clearlake, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 510 sightings in 2019.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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