CaseLight2017

E. Rio Vista, CA, USA

I'm a truck driver headed E on Hwy 12 just W of I-5, when this ball of light white in color starter for my right. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-08-31
Where
E. Rio Vista, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
Slug
light-over-e-rio-vista-ca-2017-a991d3
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…

In context

  • E. Rio Vista, CA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 594 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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