UFOMYST
CaseOther2019

Bakersfield, CA, USA

This sighting was a fluke. I took a picture with my cell phone of what I thought was a planet or star. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-05-22
Where
Bakersfield, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
1 minute
Geo
35.373, -119.019 · exact
Slug
other-over-bakersfield-ca-2019-564c05
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

  • This is one of 140 reports logged in Bakersfield, CA.
  • This case is one of 510 California reports filed in 2019.
  • Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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