CaseCircle2001
Downey, CA, USA
Slow moving bright white circular craft moving from Long Beach CA . to LAX with bright scanning light pointing upward.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (118 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-12-20
- Where
- Downey, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 min
- Geo
- 33.940, -118.133 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-downey-ca-2001-f040f7
In context
- Downey, CA shows up 28 times across the archive.
- 379 reports came from California in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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