CaseCircle2001
La Mesa, CA, USA
I was sitting on my terrace when I saw a bright red light in the sky.At first I thought it was an aeroplane but I noticed that it didn'
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: 390s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-01-05
- Where
- La Mesa, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5-8 min.
- Geo
- 32.768, -117.023 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-la-mesa-ca-2001-adbf04
In context
- La Mesa, CA has 38 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 379 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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