CaseLight2009

El Dorado Hills (suburb of Sacramento), CA, USA

At 9:25pm on 11/01/2009 a bright light hovered over a mountain range due west of eldorado hills, ca and it abruptly disappeared.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-11-01
Where
El Dorado Hills (suburb of Sacramento), CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
38.686, -121.082 · exact
Slug
light-over-el-dorado-hills-suburb-of-sacramento-ca-2009-67e841
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

  • El Dorado Hills (suburb of Sacramento), CA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 647 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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