CaseOther2016

Delano, CA, USA

The object was flying S to N in a linear direction. No beacon lights and it disappeared in the atmosphere. ((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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-28
Where
Delano, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
35.769, -119.247 · exact
Slug
other-over-delano-ca-2016-fa2c6f
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…

In context

  • Delano, CA shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 579 reports came from California in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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