Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Blinking, moving object that traveled with an erratic but repeated pattern in the daytime sky above the silicon valley.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-05-02
- Where
- Sunnyvale, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 37.369, -122.036 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-sunnyvale-ca-2004-1a82c2
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 30 reports logged in Sunnyvale, CA.
- This case is one of 568 California reports filed in 2004.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.