UFOMYST
CaseDisk2019

Modesto, CA, USA

Is round and real white looking. It is just sitting there not moving. ((NUFORC Note: Possible celestial body?? PD))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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 (69 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2019-08-12
Where
Modesto, CA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
37.639, -120.997 · exact
Slug
disk-over-modesto-ca-2019-2439f5
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 114 documented reports from Modesto, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 510 sightings in 2019.
  • Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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