Circle over Porto Marina Beach, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Around 7:30 a.m. on June 9, 2020, I was driving from Camarillo to Santa Monica for a pre-surgery doctor appointment and the Waze app diverted me to the Pacific Coast Highway due to traffic. I am relatively new to the area and was struck by the beautiful blue color of the ocean in the morning and so I saw a place to pull over at Porto Marina Beach along the way and took a few pictures with my iPhone to send to my father and sister and brother in Virginia. I was only stopped a couple of minutes. I took two pictures and there was a circular object or cloud in one part of the sky for one picture, looking toward a peninsula and then directly in front of me for the other picture, looking straight at the ocean. I don’t want to waste time if this is something like an artifact of my camera somehow. I’ve had two actual encounters with closer up unidentified objects in my life, and so I am at least reporting this for your review. I will try to send the pictures to you now.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #156972). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-06-06 → 2020-06-23