CaseCircle1998
Goleta, CA, USA
Day sighting disc craft geostationary chased away by jets.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-03-05
- Where
- Goleta, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 34.436, -119.828 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-goleta-ca-1998-a6fc69
In context
- Goleta, CA has 26 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 232 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 6.7% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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