CaseLight2009
Death Valley, CA, USA
((HOAX)) The Truth Is About To Happen....!
Report quality: Low14/100
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: 86400s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (33 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2009-07-08
- Where
- Death Valley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 day
- Geo
- 36.240, -116.811 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-death-valley-ca-2009-c308ba
Wave
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
- Death Valley, CA shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 647 reports came from California in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
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.