Modesto, CA, USA
((HOAXED REPORT??)) It was about 9:20 PM, 4th of July, and i was in my pool laying down on a flotie, staring into the sky…
Report quality: Low15/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2005-07-03
- Where
- Modesto, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5ive or ten seconds
- Geo
- 37.639, -120.997 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-modesto-ca-2005-88ec5c
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
- This is one of 114 reports logged in Modesto, CA.
- This case is one of 539 California reports filed in 2005.
Report
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