El Cajon, CA, USA
4th of July, 2004, 2 giant red lite oval/circle shaped objects over El Cajon, CA, for apx. 1 hour.
Report quality: High77/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-07-04
- Where
- El Cajon, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 32.795, -116.963 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-el-cajon-ca-2004-d3490a
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
El Cajon, CA logged 8 reports in the single month of July 2004.
In context
- One of 87 documented reports from El Cajon, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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