UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2009

Saline Valley, CA, USA

Took pix of an exper. a/c climbing above Hot Springs in Saline Valley, CA leaving a extrodinary trail. ((NUFORC Note: Contrail?? PD))

Report quality: Low29/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-11-07
Where
Saline Valley, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
10 min
Geo
—
Slug
unknown-over-saline-valley-ca-2009-ea3239
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

  • One of 2 documented reports from Saline Valley, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 647 sightings in 2009.

Report

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