UFOMYST
CaseOther2004

Lake Alpine, CA, USA

While fishing at Lake Alpine, I saw what I thought to be a silver aricraft, possibly a Cessna 140 or an Ercoupe, as these planes often

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-06-05
Where
Lake Alpine, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
38.479, -120.004 · exact
Slug
other-over-lake-alpine-ca-2004-836b81
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

  • Lake Alpine, CA has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 568 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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