CaseCircle2001
Modesto, CA, USA
I wanted to photograph comets on 11/18/01 and put my camera on a star that has meany times showed me pictures. I filmed for 3hrs and lo
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-11-18
- Where
- Modesto, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 0004
- Geo
- 37.639, -120.997 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-modesto-ca-2001-9a2959
Local cluster
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Modesto, CA in November 2001 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Modesto, CA has 114 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 379 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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