Los Banos, CA, USA
Large chrome cylinder shaped object with black dots spinning with two flaps hanging from the bottom.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-09-11
- Where
- Los Banos, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 37.058, -120.850 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-los-banos-ca-2012-c17b1f
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
- Los Banos, CA has 26 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 758 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 1.5% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
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