Mojave National Preserve, CA, USA
Unknown object in the Mojave Desert (CA) midafternoon. Not noticed in the desert; only noticed when I looked at my pictures.
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 (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-06-07
- Where
- Mojave National Preserve, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- unkwown (will explain)
- Geo
- 35.011, -115.473 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-mojave-national-preserve-ca-2005-367b2a
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
- Mojave National Preserve, CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 539 reports came from California in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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