CaseCircle2009

Temecula, CA, USA

me and my husband heading to south in 215 merging to 15 freeway when we saw this circle object hovering over us not to far from us beca

Report quality: High73/100

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  • Duration parsed: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2009-12-05
Where
Temecula, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 min
Geo
33.494, -117.148 · exact
Slug
circle-over-temecula-ca-2009-3131f5
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Temecula, CA reports filed in December 2009.

In context

  • Temecula, CA shows up 80 times across the archive.
  • 647 reports came from California in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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