American Canyon, CA, USA
This was a very large objuect in the sky and other autos stopped to check it out. I stopped in the middle of the road.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (118 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-11-28
- Where
- American Canyon, CA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 38.175, -122.261 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-american-canyon-ca-2016-582b7e
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 7 reports logged in American Canyon, CA.
- This case is one of 579 California reports filed in 2016.
- Chevron craft made up 1.1% of 2010s reports, vs 1.1% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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