Santa Clara, CA, USA
Mute, flying object shoots straight up into the sky, then falls back down to leave the same way it came.
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-11-15
- Where
- Santa Clara, CA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 1.5 Minutes
- Geo
- 37.354, -121.955 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-santa-clara-ca-2004-86a91c
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
- Santa Clara, CA has 37 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
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.