UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2004

Eureka, CA, USA

Orange light cruises Humboldt Bay

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: 660s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (33 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-10-01
Where
Eureka, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
10-12 minutes
Geo
40.802, -124.164 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-eureka-ca-2004-d7c75a
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

  • This is one of 42 reports logged in Eureka, CA.
  • This case is one of 568 California reports filed in 2004.

Report

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