UFOMYST
CaseLight2005

Sonora, CA, USA

A probe light intercepts a miltary jet at high speed; pauses next to it; and departs very rapidly

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-04-17
Where
Sonora, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
37.984, -120.382 · exact
Slug
light-over-sonora-ca-2005-10c473
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Sonora, CA shows up 30 times across the archive.
  • 539 reports came from California in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.