UFOMYST
CaseLight2016

Hanford, CA, USA

Large, 3 times larger than commercial plane, extremely bright off white light, more white than not, flashed. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-11-08
Where
Hanford, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
36.327, -119.646 · exact
Slug
light-over-hanford-ca-2016-1032dd
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 14 reports logged in Hanford, CA.
  • This case is one of 579 California reports filed in 2016.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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