CaseDisk2016
Blythe, CA, USA
Two saucers and a lighting bolt
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (31 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-01
- Where
- Blythe, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 3
- Geo
- 33.610, -114.596 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-blythe-ca-2016-6f64ca
Wave
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 17 documented reports from Blythe, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 579 sightings in 2016.
- Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.