CaseCircle2020

Vista, CA, USA

White circle (not flashing) followed by a red circle (not flashin) about 100ft. Away. Hong way quicker than planes the all of a sudden

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-02-27
Where
Vista, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
33.200, -117.243 · exact
Slug
circle-over-vista-ca-2020-c80b59
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…

In context

  • This is one of 41 reports logged in Vista, CA.
  • This case is one of 622 California reports filed in 2020.
  • Circle craft made up 11.9% of 2020s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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