Antioch, CA, USA
07/09/2010, Antioch, CA; oblong, 3 min., luminous red orange, 3 x's larger than a small plane, pulsing soft noise,strait low flight.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-07-09
- Where
- Antioch, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 min.
- Geo
- 38.005, -121.806 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-antioch-ca-2010-2e4693
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 70 reports logged in Antioch, CA.
- This case is one of 605 California reports filed in 2010.
- Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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