UFOMYST
CaseLight2007

Modesto, CA, USA

At 4:00 am I awoke looking at the sky in the E and noticed a bright star. The star started to slowly move. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? ))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2007-11-29
Where
Modesto, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 hour
Geo
37.639, -120.997 · exact
Slug
light-over-modesto-ca-2007-b5c9ac
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…

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In context

  • Modesto, CA has 114 sightings on file here.
  • 2007 brought 587 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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