Yucaipa, CA, USA
Light in Eastern Sky, emitting other lights, turning from single to three light pattern
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-10-23
- Where
- Yucaipa, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 34.034, -117.043 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-yucaipa-ca-2005-79b1d7
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 23 reports logged in Yucaipa, CA.
- This case is one of 539 California reports filed in 2005.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
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.