CaseChevron2013

Turlock, CA, USA

Observed a "V" shaped UFO with 15 whitish-yellow lights traverse 105 degrees of sky in 10 seconds, on a heading of 150.

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (119 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-09-26
Where
Turlock, CA, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
37.495, -120.847 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-turlock-ca-2013-e670d3
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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 27 reports logged in Turlock, CA.
  • This case is one of 728 California reports filed in 2013.
  • Chevron craft made up 1.1% of 2010s reports, vs 1.1% across the whole archive.

Report

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