CaseLight2009

Paradise, CA, USA

2 lights, 1st one NOT blinking being followed by 2nd one with blinking lights (probable military aircraft)

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 (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-11-16
Where
Paradise, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10-15 seconds
Geo
39.760, -121.622 · exact
Slug
light-over-paradise-ca-2009-05ad54
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

  • Paradise, CA has 10 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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