UFOMYST
CaseCircle2004

Yucca Valley, CA, USA

a huge flash and then lights

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (28 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-01-15
Where
Yucca Valley, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
34.114, -116.432 · exact
Slug
circle-over-yucca-valley-ca-2004-253f6f
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 19 documented reports from Yucca Valley, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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