CaseCircle2002
Fortuna, CA, USA
Bright orange object once again seen over Fortuna, CA
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (53 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-01-30
- Where
- Fortuna, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 40.598, -124.157 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-fortuna-ca-2002-102172
In context
- One of 18 documented reports from Fortuna, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 430 sightings in 2002.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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