Hollister, CA, USA
Reddish Orange egg shaped object spotted in or near Northern California/ Central Valley
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-09-23
- Where
- Hollister, CA, USA
- Shape
- Egg
- Duration
- <120 seconds
- Geo
- 36.852, -121.402 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-hollister-ca-2018-0d798f
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
- Hollister, CA shows up 36 times across the archive.
- 331 reports came from California in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 0.7% of reports described a egg — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
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.