CaseChanging2020

Patterson, CA, USA

Thought I seen 2 jets ready to cross over each other turned out to be only 1 jet and a UFO that at one point looked like a jet.

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-02-07
Where
Patterson, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
37.472, -121.130 · exact
Slug
changing-over-patterson-ca-2020-14a688
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…

In context

  • This is one of 20 reports logged in Patterson, CA.
  • This case is one of 622 California reports filed in 2020.
  • Changing craft made up 3.1% of 2020s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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