Sunnyvale, CA, USA
A large bright round object moving at supersonic speed is sighted in the Sunnyvale, Ca skies.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-04-29
- Where
- Sunnyvale, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 37.369, -122.036 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-sunnyvale-ca-2013-d503fa
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
- Sunnyvale, CA shows up 30 times across the archive.
- 728 reports came from California in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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