CaseLight2009

Rancho Cordova, CA, USA

Little army of star like lights pass over Sacramento County!Quite a scare.

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: 870s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (74 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-02-11
Where
Rancho Cordova, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
13-16 min.
Geo
38.589, -121.303 · exact
Slug
light-over-rancho-cordova-ca-2009-2f539a
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

  • Rancho Cordova, CA shows up 15 times across the archive.
  • 647 reports came from California in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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