Ridgecrest, CA, USA
I have seen this twice, both times with witnesses, but i failed to report it the first time. i saw the first one a few days before it
Report quality: High73/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-11-13
- Where
- Ridgecrest, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- about 2 min.
- Geo
- 35.622, -117.671 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-ridgecrest-ca-2004-0df8b1
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
November 2004 was a busy month for Ridgecrest, CA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 37 reports logged in Ridgecrest, CA.
- This case is one of 568 California reports filed in 2004.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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