CaseLight2016

Turlock, CA, USA

Light looked like shooting star moving slowly horizontally to the left then shoots off to the R and disappears

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-06-28
Where
Turlock, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
0.1 second
Geo
37.495, -120.847 · exact
Slug
light-over-turlock-ca-2016-a6a45e
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

  • One of 27 documented reports from Turlock, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 579 sightings in 2016.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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