CaseCircle1998
Sacramento, CA, USA
looked like a large star, moved for a couple seconds then shot out into space.
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: 9s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-11-17
- Where
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 8-10 sec
- Geo
- 38.582, -121.494 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-sacramento-ca-1998-e3b01d
In context
- This is one of 304 reports logged in Sacramento, CA.
- This case is one of 232 California reports filed in 1998.
- Circle craft made up 6.7% of 1990s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
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.