Pacific Ocean (in-flight sighting), CA, USA
An oval shaped ship with a metallic color shot away from our plane with speed not seen before.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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 (94 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-06-15
- Where
- Pacific Ocean (in-flight sighting), CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- oval-over-pacific-ocean-in-flight-sighting-ca-2004-c6944a
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
- Pacific Ocean (in-flight sighting), CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 568 reports came from California in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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