CaseCircle2014

Oakland, CA, USA

Saw a bright red light at a high elevation, moving slowly westward, then turn 90 degrees heading South and fade behind a tree line. It

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-08-15
Where
Oakland, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
37.804, -122.271 · exact
Slug
circle-over-oakland-ca-2014-7d19f1
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…

In context

  • One of 84 documented reports from Oakland, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 869 sightings in 2014.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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