CaseCircle2020

Lancaster, CA, USA

I was awakened at 11:11 with a strange feeling to go outside. Heard like a whirring noise, like it was windy, but it wasn't. I looked

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-10-11
Where
Lancaster, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 hour
Geo
34.698, -118.137 · exact
Slug
circle-over-lancaster-ca-2020-94afa5
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Lancaster, CA shows up 51 times across the archive.
  • 622 reports came from California in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 11.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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