CaseLight2020

Weaverville, CA, USA

3 backpackers see very strange lights appear in the wilderness while hiking the Trinity Alps, followed by a missing time event.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-04
Where
Weaverville, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
Geo
40.731, -122.942 · exact
Slug
light-over-weaverville-ca-2020-8ba7bd
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

  • Weaverville, CA has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 622 reports from California.
  • The 2020s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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