Visalia, CA, USA
Bright light that disapeared. ((NUFORC Note: Could not have been the ISS, which was over Washington at 22:15 hrs. this date. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (29 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
- 2011-06-29
- Where
- Visalia, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 36.330, -119.292 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-visalia-ca-2011-6f5b87
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
- This is one of 51 reports logged in Visalia, CA.
- This case is one of 624 California reports filed in 2011.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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