Sacramento, CA, USA
two high speed, high altitude lights Sacramento California 9:15pm + 8-19-07. ((NUFORC Note: Space Shuttle and ISS? PD))
Report quality: Moderate53/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (76 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2007-08-19
- Where
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1.5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.582, -121.494 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-sacramento-ca-2007-df1f98
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…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Sacramento, CA in August 2007 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Sacramento, CA has 304 sightings on file here.
- 2007 brought 587 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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