UFOMYST
CaseCircle2011

Pasadena, CA, USA

Two orange bright circular objects kept going back and forth in the sky, then disappeared, when the clock hit 12 and it was new years.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-12-31
Where
Pasadena, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
34.148, -118.145 · exact
Slug
circle-over-pasadena-ca-2011-9c18d5
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…

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In context

  • One of 56 documented reports from Pasadena, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 624 sightings in 2011.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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