Citrus Heights, CA, USA
In broad daylight in the middle of town, myself, my friend, and strangers watched in amazment and puzzlement.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-04-01
- Where
- Citrus Heights, CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 38.707, -121.281 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-citrus-heights-ca-2004-28bbb6
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 39 documented reports from Citrus Heights, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
- Other sightings ran at 7.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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