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CaseCigar2005

Fresno (near), CA, USA

UFO THAT STOPPED DEAD CENTER, HOVERED, AND BOLTED UP TO THE RIGHT AND CONTINUED TO HOVER ALONG I-10 E NEAR FRESNO, HEADED TO TEXAS.

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-09-02
Where
Fresno (near), CA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
3-5 min
Geo
36.748, -119.772 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-fresno-near-ca-2005-0c747b
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…

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In context

  • Fresno (near), CA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 539 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 2.7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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