CaseFireball2004
Modesto, CA, USA
Strange lights over Modesto
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (27 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-07-17
- Where
- Modesto, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 37.639, -120.997 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-modesto-ca-2004-40dcbd
Wave
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 568 California reports filed in 2004.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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