UFOMYST
CaseSphere2012

Escondido, CA, USA

Bright Unusual Lights Shapeshifting and Pulsating in Escondido CA. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of stars?? PD))

Report quality: Low31/100

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: 21600s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2012-09-25
Where
Escondido, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
6 hours
Geo
33.119, -117.086 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-escondido-ca-2012-765d01
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In context

  • Escondido, CA shows up 79 times across the archive.
  • 758 reports came from California in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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