Riverbank, CA, USA
Me my boyfriend and daughter where driving when I noticed three orange/red lights that where moving together in a triangle formation wh
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-12-31
- Where
- Riverbank, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 37.736, -120.935 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-riverbank-ca-2017-3d1c6a
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…
In context
- One of 10 documented reports from Riverbank, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 594 sightings in 2017.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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