Sacramento, CA, USA
At 5:10pm, going south on I-5 at the Folsom Avenue exit my girlfriend and I saw something very strange. She saw a greenish blue streak
Report quality: Moderate59/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-01-03
- Where
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- unknown
- Geo
- 38.582, -121.494 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-sacramento-ca-2004-aa92d3
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
- One of 304 documented reports from Sacramento, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
- Flash sightings ran at 1.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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