Mount Shasta, CA, USA
Pulsating, rotating lights at approx 40-50deg. angle, ESE of Mt. Shasta, at least 2-4 hrs. ((NUFORC Note:Possibly Sirius? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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 (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2006-12-03
- Where
- Mount Shasta, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2-4 hours
- Geo
- 41.310, -122.312 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-mount-shasta-ca-2006-34b357
Part of a wave
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In context
- Mount Shasta, CA shows up 17 times across the archive.
- 561 reports came from California in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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