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CaseChevron2004

Modesto, CA, USA

My girlfriend, her friend, and myself were standing and talking out on my back porch looking briefly up at the stars, when we all saw w

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-01-28
Where
Modesto, CA, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
15 secs
Geo
37.639, -120.997 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-modesto-ca-2004-2ff7d8
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Modesto, CA has 114 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 568 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.2% chevron reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.1%.

Report

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