UFOMYST
CaseOther2016

Orangevale, CA, USA

Pulsing, changing colors, but relatively stationary in the NE sky, at about 30 degrees from horizon.

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-01-04
Where
Orangevale, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
38.679, -121.226 · exact
Slug
other-over-orangevale-ca-2016-d17713
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 14 documented reports from Orangevale, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 579 sightings in 2016.
  • Other sightings ran at 6.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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