Lodi, CA, USA
Not UFO, but lightning can appear identical to sightings and persist for unnaturally seeming long times.
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-07-04
- Where
- Lodi, CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 3 hrs
- Geo
- 38.130, -121.272 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-lodi-ca-2010-c091cd
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 25 documented reports from Lodi, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 605 sightings in 2010.
- Other sightings ran at 6.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.