CaseLight2020

Hanford, CA, USA

Three lights lined up letting off other star like lights

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-02-24
Where
Hanford, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
36.327, -119.646 · exact
Slug
light-over-hanford-ca-2020-cec29e
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

  • Hanford, CA shows up 14 times across the archive.
  • 622 reports came from California in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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