Fairfax, CA, USA
black object
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (12 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-10-18
- Where
- Fairfax, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10minutes
- Geo
- 37.987, -122.589 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-fairfax-ca-2004-59369c
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…
Local cluster
Fairfax, CA logged 3 reports in the single month of October 2004.
In context
- One of 9 documented reports from Fairfax, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.