California City, CA, USA
Long slow moving craft with a bright light, hovered and vanished. ((NUFORC Note: Re-entering space debris. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2016-07-27
- Where
- California City, CA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 35.126, -117.986 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-california-city-ca-2016-e89497
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
- California City, CA shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 579 reports came from California in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 1.1% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.
Report
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