UFOMYST
CaseFlash2012

Modesto, CA, USA

I saw a circle of white clusters of light and radiating spikes of light spreading out from the center.

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-01-15
Where
Modesto, CA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
ongoing, 2 nights
Geo
37.639, -120.997 · exact
Slug
flash-over-modesto-ca-2012-c8f766
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…

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In context

  • One of 114 documented reports from Modesto, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 758 sightings in 2012.
  • Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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