UFOMYST
CaseFlash2004

West Sacramento, CA, USA

It left skid marks in the sky with a trail of smoke. It was a blue light of a flash which I thought were fireworks that never popped. T

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-08-03
Where
West Sacramento, CA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
Split Second
Geo
38.580, -121.530 · exact
Slug
flash-over-west-sacramento-ca-2004-2e3744
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • West Sacramento, CA has 10 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 568 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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