CaseOval2001
Vista, CA, USA
helicopter shaped craft, many lights, no chopper blades, 10pm san diego california. 12-18-01.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-12-18
- Where
- Vista, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 25 seconds
- Geo
- 33.200, -117.243 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-vista-ca-2001-c59939
In context
- Vista, CA shows up 41 times across the archive.
- 379 reports came from California in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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