Modesto, CA, USA
Two crafts spotted over Westfield shopping cntr. Modesto
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-26
- Where
- Modesto, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 45 Min.
- Geo
- 37.639, -120.997 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-modesto-ca-2009-9d9434
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…
Local cluster
Modesto, CA logged 3 reports in the single month of August 2009.
In context
- One of 114 documented reports from Modesto, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 647 sightings in 2009.
- Cigar sightings ran at 2.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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