Sonora, CA, USA
Two Silver Disc-Shaped Objects Hovered for 10 Minutes over Sonora, CA
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (69 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-05-17
- Where
- Sonora, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10 Minutes
- Geo
- 37.984, -120.382 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-sonora-ca-2004-9181d0
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Sonora, CA reports filed in May 2004.
In context
- Sonora, CA shows up 30 times across the archive.
- 568 reports came from California in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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