Mill Valley, CA, USA
Very high altitude object hovered in the eastern sky at very high altitude. Moved rapidly south and again remained stationary for a few
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-01-31
- Where
- Mill Valley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 37.906, -122.545 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-mill-valley-ca-2004-efad8a
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…
In context
- One of 10 documented reports from Mill Valley, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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