Bethel Island, CA, USA
a light in the sky moving fast and disappering
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (46 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-08-20
- Where
- Bethel Island, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 sec
- Geo
- 38.015, -121.641 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-bethel-island-ca-2004-ac55c4
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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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Bethel Island, CA.
- This case is one of 568 California reports filed in 2004.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
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