CaseLight2016

Citrus Heights, CA, USA

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Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 510s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2016-08-10
Where
Citrus Heights, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
7-10 minutes
Geo
38.707, -121.281 · exact
Slug
light-over-citrus-heights-ca-2016-dcce5d
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…

In context

  • One of 39 documented reports from Citrus Heights, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 579 sightings in 2016.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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