Vandenberg Village, CA, USA
It was very red, almost looked on fire. It was a very large light when we first saw it. It was in the North sky and was heading S.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-08-10
- Where
- Vandenberg Village, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- ~5 minutes
- Geo
- 34.708, -120.468 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-vandenberg-village-ca-2014-3da03d
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 2 documented reports from Vandenberg Village, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 869 sightings in 2014.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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