CaseOther2004
Fair Oaks, CA, USA
low flying aircraft light blue in color was there and then gone
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 (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-04-06
- Where
- Fair Oaks, CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 38.645, -121.272 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-fair-oaks-ca-2004-d47166
Wave
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
- This is one of 15 reports logged in Fair Oaks, CA.
- This case is one of 568 California reports filed in 2004.
- Other craft made up 7.6% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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