Butte Meadows (near), CA, USA
Very bright light moving behind trees, horozontly. Iwatched for about 5 minutes. There may have been several lights. My dog woke me uo
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 (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-08-28
- Where
- Butte Meadows (near), CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 40.081, -121.551 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-butte-meadows-near-ca-2005-5348d7
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
- Butte Meadows (near), CA has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 539 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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