CaseOval2016
Essex, CA, USA
UFO caught on Snapchat while on a plane.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (40 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-20
- Where
- Essex, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- Few seconds
- Geo
- 40.906, -124.035 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-essex-ca-2016-3e7eec
Wave
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
- Essex, CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 579 reports came from California in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
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.