Vacaville, CA, USA
I was spending the night stargazing through my telescope, after the partial eclipse of the sun earlier that day. The sky had some scatt
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-05-21
- Where
- Vacaville, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 mins.
- Geo
- 38.357, -121.988 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-vacaville-ca-2012-3dc10c
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
- Vacaville, CA has 47 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 758 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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