UFOMYST
CaseOther2004

Ripon, CA, USA

Looking up in Nother sky at 12:06am 10-12-04 I by myself seen a boomerang shaped object heading west. It passed over 90 dgrees in 4-5 s

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-10-12
Where
Ripon, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
4-5seconds
Geo
37.742, -121.124 · exact
Slug
other-over-ripon-ca-2004-83413e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • 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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Ripon, CA shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 568 reports came from California in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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