Patterson, CA, USA
Round white object looked like a balloon hovered for 20 minutes then gone.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-01-13
- Where
- Patterson, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 37.472, -121.130 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-patterson-ca-2020-538b92
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
- One of 20 documented reports from Patterson, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 622 sightings in 2020.
- Circle sightings ran at 11.9% during the 2020s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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