Wheatland, CA, USA
Observed strange bluish light. North to south direction. Unknown altitude. Very Fast. Horizon to horizon in approx. two minutes.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-14
- Where
- Wheatland, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- Several minutes
- Geo
- 39.010, -121.423 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-wheatland-ca-2016-c900c6
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
- Wheatland, CA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 579 reports came from California in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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