Redding, CA, USA
Star looking object moving in a very odd pattern, just a white light just like a star. ((NUFORC Note: Star, Sirius. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2011-02-22
- Where
- Redding, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 40.587, -122.392 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-redding-ca-2011-75a8c8
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
- One of 103 documented reports from Redding, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 624 sightings in 2011.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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