Modesto, CA, USA
multi-colored lights (3 - red middle light), blinking in irregular patterns. Seen North of Modesto, near cross streets Orangeburg and O
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-05-26
- Where
- Modesto, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- unknown
- Geo
- 37.639, -120.997 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-modesto-ca-2016-7be7ea
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
- This is one of 114 reports logged in Modesto, CA.
- This case is one of 579 California reports filed in 2016.
- Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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