CaseCircle1993
Cottonwood Lakes Trail (near Mt. Whitney), CA, USA
silver object seen on backpacking trip near Mt. Whitney, CA - 1993
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (66 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1993-07-01
- Where
- Cottonwood Lakes Trail (near Mt. Whitney), CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- circle-over-cottonwood-lakes-trail-near-mt-whitney-ca-1993-364dac
In context
- Cottonwood Lakes Trail (near Mt. Whitney), CA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 47 reports came from California in 1993.
- In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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