CaseLight2006

Novato, CA, USA

Mysterious gold light in the night sky in north San Francisco Bay area

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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (70 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-07-21
Where
Novato, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10-15 seconds
Geo
38.107, -122.570 · exact
Slug
light-over-novato-ca-2006-966999
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

  • One of 23 documented reports from Novato, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 561 sightings in 2006.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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