UFOMYST
CaseCircle2017

Elk Grove, CA, USA

Group of orange orbs following each other behind the trees in the southern sky until each seem to turn their lights off and couldn't se

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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-02-25
Where
Elk Grove, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
8 minutes
Geo
38.409, -121.372 · exact
Slug
circle-over-elk-grove-ca-2017-1b228a
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…

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In context

  • Elk Grove, CA has 46 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 594 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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