UFOMYST
CaseCircle2013

Porterville, CA, USA

UFO paralleling a man made aircraft during a suspected "chem-trail" operation caught on video.

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-05-27
Where
Porterville, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
36.065, -119.017 · exact
Slug
circle-over-porterville-ca-2013-219632
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

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In context

  • One of 36 documented reports from Porterville, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 728 sightings in 2013.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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