CaseLight2005
Valley Springs, CA, USA
All I heard was the wind. The object never made a noise.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-07-11
- Where
- Valley Springs, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 min
- Geo
- 38.192, -120.829 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-valley-springs-ca-2005-86fc9e
Wave
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 11 documented reports from Valley Springs, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 539 sightings in 2005.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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