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
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: 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
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…
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 daysReport
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