UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2012

West Sacramento, CA, USA

Unknown craft heading Southeast from the Northwest at approx 5 thousand feet..reflecting lite only..no apparent onboard lighting

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-01-01
Where
West Sacramento, CA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
38.580, -121.530 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-west-sacramento-ca-2012-c03fa3
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

  • West Sacramento, CA has 10 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 758 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.5% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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