CaseCircle1996
San Diego, CA, USA
A brilliant white perfect circle changes to a circle within a circle and then becomes a distant dot in the sky.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 70s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-06-18
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 70 seconds
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-san-diego-ca-1996-fd71a8
In context
- San Diego, CA has 516 sightings on file here.
- 1996 brought 136 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 6.7% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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