CaseCircle2002
Mt. Popocatepetl (Mexico), Mexico
Shortly before dawn, a circular UFO was seen flying below Mt. Popocatepetl in Mexico.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-06-26
- Where
- Mt. Popocatepetl (Mexico), Mexico
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 43.912, -123.968 · fallback
- Slug
- circle-over-mt-popocatepetl-mexico-2002-21481d
In context
- Mt. Popocatepetl (Mexico), Mexico shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 22 reports came from Mexico in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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