Modesto, CA, USA
Glowing different colors alien space craft. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of "twinkling" stars? PD))
Report quality: Low26/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (43 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2009-06-16
- Where
- Modesto, CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- one hour
- Geo
- 37.639, -120.997 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-modesto-ca-2009-aefa47
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
- Modesto, CA shows up 114 times across the archive.
- 647 reports came from California in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 1.8% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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