Redding, CA, USA
Saw a strange blinking light, red, green, blue, and white. Flying somewhere above N CA. ((NUFORC Note: Twinkling stars?? Anon. 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 (87 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
- 2017-09-09
- Where
- Redding, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Geo
- 40.587, -122.392 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-redding-ca-2017-dd69c8
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
- Redding, CA shows up 103 times across the archive.
- 594 reports came from California in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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