CaseChevron2005
Riverside, CA, USA
Arrowhead seen above 215 freeway near Riverside Ca.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-08-28
- Where
- Riverside, CA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.953, -117.396 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-riverside-ca-2005-74be17
Wave
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
- Riverside, CA shows up 117 times across the archive.
- 539 reports came from California in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 1.2% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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