UFOMYST
CaseOther2021

Lathrop, CA, USA

UFO slow moving long snake shape in purple gray color seen in Lathrop sky at 7:27pm 01/17/2021

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-01-17
Where
Lathrop, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
37.823, -121.277 · exact
Slug
other-over-lathrop-ca-2021-d31697
Wave

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  • 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…

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In context

  • Lathrop, CA has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 2021 brought 330 reports from California.
  • The 2020s skewed 6.1% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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