Shafter, CA, USA
Diamond shaped object hovered above refinery and was viewed by 5 other wittnesses.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-07-16
- Where
- Shafter, CA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 45 min.
- Geo
- 35.501, -119.272 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-shafter-ca-2004-70634f
Part of a wave
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
- One of 7 documented reports from Shafter, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
- Changing sightings ran at 2.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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