Whittier, CA, USA
I wanted to go to the liquor store to buy some cigarets and I asked my son to come along when I stepped out of my apartment and I saw i
Report quality: High81/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-03-10
- Where
- Whittier, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 33.979, -118.033 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-whittier-ca-2006-ed6c96
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
Whittier, CA logged 6 reports in the single month of March 2006.
In context
- One of 62 documented reports from Whittier, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 561 sightings in 2006.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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