UFOMYST
CaseChanging2004

Fairfax, CA, USA

I had reported this last year already, but wasnt clear. I had seen 4 or 5 black stationary dots. to the west ,at a low altitude. Sudden

Report quality: High73/100

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  • Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2004-10-17
Where
Fairfax, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
15 mins
Geo
37.987, -122.589 · exact
Slug
changing-over-fairfax-ca-2004-c08241
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

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    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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Local cluster

Local cluster

Fairfax, CA logged 3 reports in the single month of October 2004.

In context

  • One of 9 documented reports from Fairfax, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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