Tahoe City, CA, USA
I SAW A LIGHT WHICH I THOUGHT WAS A STAR BUT IT WAS MOVING IN A N TO S COURSE. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of satellites and star?? PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2008-03-24
- Where
- Tahoe City, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 60 MINUTES
- Geo
- 39.172, -120.139 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-tahoe-city-ca-2008-5fe04f
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
- One of 7 documented reports from Tahoe City, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 709 sightings in 2008.
Report
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