UFOMYST
CaseCircle2008

Los Gatos, CA, USA

"Shooting Star" that made immediate 90 degree turn

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-02-12
Where
Los Gatos, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 Seconds
Geo
37.227, -121.975 · exact
Slug
circle-over-los-gatos-ca-2008-88e01c
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Los Gatos, CA has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 709 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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