UFOMYST
CaseCircle2003

Panorama City, CA, USA

Brilliant red light above Panorama City, in the San Fernando Valley, California

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (79 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2003-01-17
Where
Panorama City, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
34.225, -118.450 · exact
Slug
circle-over-panorama-city-ca-2003-452b6b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap2003

    CA flap 2003-01

    CA, USA

    15 sightings in geohash 9q5f (CA) during 2003 peak months 1–1; top shape light

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Flap

CA flap 2003-01

This case is part of the CA flap 2003-01 — 15 reports clustered in the same place and window of time.

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In context

  • One of 7 documented reports from Panorama City, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 599 sightings in 2003.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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