Tahoe City, CA, USA
I STILL AM SEEING IT, IT HAS MOVED NOW IN A COURSE GOING EAST TO WEST ALMOST OVERHEAD. I SAW A HELICOPTER GO BY BUT THIS LIGHT WAS VERY
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-03-24
- Where
- Tahoe City, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 90 MINUTES
- Geo
- 39.172, -120.139 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-tahoe-city-ca-2008-26a922
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
- Tahoe City, CA shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 709 reports came from California in 2008.
Report
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