UFOMYST
CaseCircle2006

Long Beach, CA, USA

Let me first say that I have been a pilot since I was 17 years old, flew helicopters in the Army and logged over 3600 hours of flight t

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 330s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-11-26
Where
Long Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5-6 minutes
Geo
33.767, -118.189 · exact
Slug
circle-over-long-beach-ca-2006-980b66
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

November 2006 was a busy month for Long Beach, CA: 5 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 142 reports logged in Long Beach, CA.
  • This case is one of 561 California reports filed in 2006.
  • Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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