Quincy, CA, USA
Tri-colored cylinder shaped object at about 500 feet disappears into mountains 5-10 miles away.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-01-30
- Where
- Quincy, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 39.937, -120.946 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-quincy-ca-2007-642167
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
- One of 18 documented reports from Quincy, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 587 sightings in 2007.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.6%).
Report
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