CaseSphere2020

Temecula, CA, USA

My fiance and I while stargazing saw a small circular light moving downward and flashing, then it split into 2 while stopped, then a 3r

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-31
Where
Temecula, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1 minute
Geo
33.494, -117.148 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-temecula-ca-2020-8454ac
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Temecula, CA in July 2020 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Temecula, CA has 80 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 622 reports from California.
  • The 2020s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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