CaseDisk1986
Nevada City, CA, USA
4 saucers follow cars then hover above Yuba River in Nevada City. Flashing circle of lights that hum under craft.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1986-07-01
- Where
- Nevada City, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 39.262, -121.018 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-nevada-city-ca-1986-8b4c4f
In context
- Nevada City, CA has 9 sightings on file here.
- 1986 brought 27 reports from California.
- The 1980s skewed 14.3% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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