Elk Grove, CA, USA
2 Craft seen in Elk Grove, Ca. Defying inertia and gravity with no sound. Seen by USMC Scout/Sniper.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-01-25
- Where
- Elk Grove, CA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 38.409, -121.372 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-elk-grove-ca-2013-5006a4
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
- Elk Grove, CA shows up 46 times across the archive.
- 728 reports came from California in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 1.1% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.