Joshua Tree, CA, USA
It is round and stays for about 30 seconds and then leaves, then itll come back a second time.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-04-22
- Where
- Joshua Tree, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 34.135, -116.313 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-joshua-tree-ca-2008-cadb93
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
- Joshua Tree, CA shows up 17 times across the archive.
- 709 reports came from California in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.