I-5 and Lerdo Highway, CA, USA
Blue and white craft in clear sky around 9pm on 4/2/04 near Arvin on the I-5 in the Central Valley of Calif.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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 (108 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-04-02
- Where
- I-5 and Lerdo Highway, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- circle-over-i-5-and-lerdo-highway-ca-2004-80ac86
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
- One of 1 documented reports from I-5 and Lerdo Highway, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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