CaseCircle2010

Los Angeles, CA, USA

saw round gold ball withgray gue coming out slit in side out run police sence they are around 250am black puff of smoke appear over tre

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-05-02
Where
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
30
Geo
34.052, -118.244 · exact
Slug
circle-over-los-angeles-ca-2010-ca3f2e
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Los Angeles, CA in May 2010 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Los Angeles, CA has 521 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 605 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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