Bakersfield, CA, USA
While driving to work at 6:30 am I observed a jet trail streaking across the sky at a very fast rate. what appeared to be faster than m
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-27
- Where
- Bakersfield, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 35.373, -119.019 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-bakersfield-ca-2005-0947d0
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
- Bakersfield, CA has 140 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 539 reports from California.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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