Temecula, CA, USA
Object was flying E to W towards Gemini; looked like a satelite, then took an immediate upward direction and disappeared.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-05-20
- Where
- Temecula, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 33.494, -117.148 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-temecula-ca-2015-4e5834
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
- One of 80 documented reports from Temecula, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 814 sightings in 2015.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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