Willows, CA, USA
Witnessed a light that went up surrounded by fog in a v shape hovered for 12-15 minutes then descended with fog taking the opposite sha
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-10-07
- Where
- Willows, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 39.524, -122.194 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-willows-ca-2018-e4162c
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
- One of 4 documented reports from Willows, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 331 sightings in 2018.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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