Grass Valley, CA, USA
Flash of light in Northern Sky near big dipper on Thursday 1/25/07 seen by two people.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-01-25
- Where
- Grass Valley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 1 sec
- Geo
- 39.219, -121.061 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-grass-valley-ca-2007-f939a8
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
- One of 34 documented reports from Grass Valley, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 587 sightings in 2007.
- Flash sightings ran at 1.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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