UFOMYST
CaseOval2004

San Bernardino, CA, USA

We observed four lit up objects which appeared to be in a triangle formation,that were just hovering over the north-east skies, one of

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-08-16
Where
San Bernardino, CA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
1 hour
Geo
34.108, -117.290 · exact
Slug
oval-over-san-bernardino-ca-2004-244f3b
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…

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In context

  • One of 73 documented reports from San Bernardino, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 4.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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