CaseUnknown2017

Ridgecrest, CA, USA

Saw amber/orange lighted object in western sky. ((anonymous report))

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (47 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-03-03
Where
Ridgecrest, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
45 seconds
Geo
35.622, -117.671 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-ridgecrest-ca-2017-ef58b6
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…

In context

  • This is one of 37 reports logged in Ridgecrest, CA.
  • This case is one of 594 California reports filed in 2017.

Report

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