Orangevale, CA, USA
The obj. looked just like a star color and size from my angle; took a arc type path/ just dissapperd. ((NUFORC Note: Satellite? PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2008-06-02
- Where
- Orangevale, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 40 sec
- Geo
- 38.679, -121.226 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-orangevale-ca-2008-ab4920
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
- Orangevale, CA has 14 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 709 reports from California.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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