Foresthill, CA, USA
It was dusk, and I saw a large, glowing object moving in the sky, & took a photo of it as quickly as I could get my camera out. It sort
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-12-31
- Where
- Foresthill, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- several seconds
- Geo
- 39.020, -120.818 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-foresthill-ca-2006-a0cc50
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…
In context
- Foresthill, CA shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 561 reports came from California in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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