CaseCircle2002

San Diego, CA, USA

Large, burning ball spotted drifting in the sky above San Diego on Feb. 9, 2002

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (79 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2002-02-09
Where
San Diego, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
32.716, -117.165 · exact
Slug
circle-over-san-diego-ca-2002-3fe956

In context

  • This is one of 516 reports logged in San Diego, CA.
  • This case is one of 430 California reports filed in 2002.
  • Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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