UFOMYST
CaseLight2009

Yankee Hill, CA, USA

Thought it was a bright star at first. Then the light moved down close to the trees. It moved around the mountains for about 4 to 5 m

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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-01-04
Where
Yankee Hill, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
4 to 5 min
Geo
39.703, -121.522 · exact
Slug
light-over-yankee-hill-ca-2009-4bd95a
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…

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In context

  • Yankee Hill, CA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 647 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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