Santa Clara, CA, USA
Each circular light/object moved slowly - just below cloud ceiling going from the north sky (measured 298-300 degrees NW- on my i phon
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-04-17
- Where
- Santa Clara, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2.0
- Geo
- 37.354, -121.955 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-santa-clara-ca-2011-f1e650
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Santa Clara, CA has 37 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 624 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
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.