Los Angeles, CA, USA
I saw a small circular object with bright lights hovering low and very slowly in the air.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-11-16
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- about 15 seconds
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-los-angeles-ca-2008-736c4d
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…
Local cluster
Los Angeles, CA logged 6 reports in the single month of November 2008.
In context
- One of 521 documented reports from Los Angeles, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 709 sightings in 2008.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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