UFOMYST
CaseFormation2004

Benicia, CA, USA

UFO's seen over Benicia, California as five objects converge and separate. 3 witnesses.

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 (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-06-01
Where
Benicia, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
38.049, -122.159 · exact
Slug
formation-over-benicia-ca-2004-482dc8
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

  • One of 25 documented reports from Benicia, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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