Grass Valley, CA, USA
Spotted a stationary white dot in the sky east of us that remained for 2 hours then moved very slowly to the North and faded out.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-05-26
- Where
- Grass Valley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Geo
- 39.219, -121.061 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-grass-valley-ca-2014-67bd4e
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
- One of 34 documented reports from Grass Valley, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 869 sightings in 2014.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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