UFOMYST
CaseCircle2013

Sacramento, CA, USA

A large, circular, bright, white light appeared in the night sky traveling at a high rate of speed and disappeared in thin air.

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-07-08
Where
Sacramento, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
38.582, -121.494 · exact
Slug
circle-over-sacramento-ca-2013-9cddd9
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

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Sacramento, CA has 304 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 728 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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