McCloud, CA, USA
Appeared out of nowhere and maintained a vertical line and disappeared 7 seconds later.
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-11-18
- Where
- McCloud, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 7 seconds
- Geo
- 41.256, -122.139 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-mccloud-ca-2008-5cc5eb
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
- McCloud, CA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 709 reports came from California in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 0.5% of reports described a cone — the all-time rate is 0.4%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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