Oakland, CA, USA
White round object around airplane level in the sky jumped around in zig-zag pattern like a mouse cursor, hovered, and disappeared.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-08-26
- Where
- Oakland, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 37.804, -122.271 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-oakland-ca-2021-f23d90
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
- Oakland, CA shows up 84 times across the archive.
- 330 reports came from California in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 11.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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