Walnut Creek (area off I-680), CA, USA
Driving towards San Jose area this morning and noticed small bright lit craft hovering in distance; area was hilly.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-24
- Where
- Walnut Creek (area off I-680), CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 37.906, -122.065 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-walnut-creek-area-off-i-680-ca-2016-58f9ef
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 1 documented reports from Walnut Creek (area off I-680), CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 579 sightings in 2016.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
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