UFOMYST
CaseOther2012

Merced County, CA, USA

Object sighted above Pacheco Pass Highway 152 morning of 4/16/12. ((NUFORC Note: Many witnesses in Los Banos area. PD))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-04-16
Where
Merced County, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
Unknown
Geo
37.192, -120.718 · exact
Slug
other-over-merced-county-ca-2012-aa50f0
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    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

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In context

  • Merced County, CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 758 reports came from California in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

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