Friant, CA, USA
We notice a light flying smoothly through the sky, not fast like a jet and not slow like a airplane..
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-06-30
- Where
- Friant, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 6 seconds
- Geo
- 36.988, -119.712 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-friant-ca-2017-08cb1d
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
- Friant, CA has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 594 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure 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.