Patterson, CA, USA
I have it on tape it not fuzzy, very clear and lasted a long time. And it was very bright for a long time one on the ground and one in
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 2040s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-03-16
- Where
- Patterson, CA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 34 min
- Geo
- 37.472, -121.130 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-patterson-ca-2006-cc0ef5
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 20 reports logged in Patterson, CA.
- This case is one of 561 California reports filed in 2006.
- Changing craft made up 2.8% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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