UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2012

Porterville, CA, USA

This was not a craft, but we believe it to be an alien, atleast it was unidentifiable to us. Driving down the road an unidentified thin

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-01-16
Where
Porterville, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
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Geo
36.065, -119.017 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-porterville-ca-2012-636f65
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Porterville, CA reports filed in January 2012.

In context

  • Porterville, CA shows up 36 times across the archive.
  • 758 reports came from California in 2012.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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