UFOMYST
CaseOther2009

Cloverdale, CA, USA

One white light in the north and 10 minutes later an orange teardrop shaped light that was followed by two jets patroling the night sky

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: 38s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-05-05
Where
Cloverdale, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
30-45 seconds
Geo
38.805, -123.017 · exact
Slug
other-over-cloverdale-ca-2009-5ea827
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

  • Cloverdale, CA has 12 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 647 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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