CaseCircle1998
Petaluma, CA, USA
Bright white disk, traveling rapidly in a straight line from Northwest to North toward the horizon.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-15
- Where
- Petaluma, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 second
- Geo
- 38.232, -122.637 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-petaluma-ca-1998-c6449f
In context
- Petaluma, CA has 43 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 232 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 6.7% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.