CaseCircle2000
Penn Valley, CA, USA
Having 1st beer (drinking day) on deck, yellow lite on, decended NW to SW erratic in <90s. AFB said no activity in area.
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-06-29
- Where
- Penn Valley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- <90 seconds
- Geo
- 39.196, -121.191 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-penn-valley-ca-2000-e4d843
In context
- Penn Valley, CA shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 439 reports came from California in 2000.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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