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
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 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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