UFOMYST
CaseCone2016

Foresthill, CA, USA

Obj. was flashing different color lights, blue red and chrome like. Was hovering above the mountain top. ((NUFORC Note: Sirius? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 780s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2016-02-18
Where
Foresthill, CA, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
13 minutes
Geo
39.020, -120.818 · exact
Slug
cone-over-foresthill-ca-2016-363c86
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 6 reports logged in Foresthill, CA.
  • This case is one of 579 California reports filed in 2016.
  • Cone craft made up 0.4% of 2010s reports, vs 0.4% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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