CaseCircle2014

Cool, CA, USA

Spherical object sighted on May 26 at 1200 ENE of Cool, Ca.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 16200s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-05-26
Where
Cool, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
4.5 hours
Geo
38.887, -121.015 · exact
Slug
circle-over-cool-ca-2014-710e99
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

  • Cool, CA shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 869 reports came from California in 2014.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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