Patterson, CA, USA
A bright white dot in a clear blue sky hovering over or between Turlock and Patterson CA at approximately 70-80 degrees up.
Report quality: Moderate67/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-08-12
- Where
- Patterson, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 15:00 minutes
- Geo
- 37.472, -121.130 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-patterson-ca-2019-2e831c
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Patterson, CA in August 2019 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Patterson, CA has 20 sightings on file here.
- 2019 brought 510 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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