Benicia, CA, USA
Experienced a UFO drive-by until it came down to me!
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-07-31
- Where
- Benicia, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 38.049, -122.159 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-benicia-ca-2021-6c5404
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
5 reports came out of Benicia, CA in July 2021 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Benicia, CA has 25 sightings on file here.
- 2021 brought 330 reports from California.
- The 2020s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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