Manteca (above; in flight), CA, USA
Odd, distinctively shaped craft seen at 21,000 feet east of Manteca by two commercial pilots
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-10-07
- Where
- Manteca (above; in flight), CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 37.797, -121.216 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-manteca-above-in-flight-ca-2007-1d46c6
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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
- Manteca (above; in flight), CA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2007 brought 587 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
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