Hat Creek, CA, USA
Three white hang glider shaped objects in clear blue sky flying in a circle, counter clockwise moving in and out of a tight formation.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-07-16
- Where
- Hat Creek, CA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- unknown
- Geo
- 40.830, -121.514 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-hat-creek-ca-2004-187972
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 4 reports logged in Hat Creek, CA.
- This case is one of 568 California reports filed in 2004.
- Chevron craft made up 1.2% of 2000s reports, vs 1.1% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.