UFOMYST
CaseChevron2009

Tracy, CA, USA

I saw a red and blue "V" shaped object flying through the sky and emitting a bright l.e.d.-like light.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-11-24
Where
Tracy, CA, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
37.740, -121.426 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-tracy-ca-2009-2022f3
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

  • Tracy, CA shows up 36 times across the archive.
  • 647 reports came from California in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 1.2% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.

Report

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