UFOMYST
CaseLight2005

Valley Springs, CA, USA

Very bright light appears, disappears, reappears.

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: 330s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-09-28
Where
Valley Springs, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 to 6 minutes
Geo
38.192, -120.829 · exact
Slug
light-over-valley-springs-ca-2005-ae9202
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…

    Open wave →

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%).

Report

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