UFOMYST
CaseFlash2014

Elk Grove, CA, USA

Bright object flashes then shoots across the sky.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-01-28
Where
Elk Grove, CA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
38.409, -121.372 · exact
Slug
flash-over-elk-grove-ca-2014-ae2a8d
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

  • Elk Grove, CA has 46 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 869 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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