CaseLight2015

Madera, CA, USA

Saw 3 glowing lights that were apart two up top one below, at approximately 6:30 am in the horizon, after a few minutes they slowly dis

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-09-18
Where
Madera, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
36.961, -120.061 · exact
Slug
light-over-madera-ca-2015-becba8
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

  • Madera, CA shows up 30 times across the archive.
  • 814 reports came from California in 2015.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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