Hanford, CA, USA
Silver fat disk fading in and out with a blueish tinge, very high speed , in a perfectly straight line n to s
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 (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-11-15
- Where
- Hanford, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 36.327, -119.646 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-hanford-ca-2008-f0e3c8
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
- Hanford, CA has 14 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 709 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.