CaseLight2013

Elk Grove, CA, USA

Preface: there are plenty of commercial planes, private planes, military planes and helicopters with Sac Int Airport, military, and sma

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-07-04
Where
Elk Grove, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
>1 minute
Geo
38.409, -121.372 · exact
Slug
light-over-elk-grove-ca-2013-6897fb
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

July 2013 was a busy month for Elk Grove, CA: 4 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 46 reports logged in Elk Grove, CA.
  • This case is one of 728 California reports filed in 2013.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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