CaseOval2020

Nevada city, CA, USA

30 UFO's in a uniform line over the Nor-Cal pre-dawn sky, 02/08/2020

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-02-08
Where
Nevada city, CA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
39.262, -121.018 · exact
Slug
oval-over-nevada-city-ca-2020-e7b62d
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…

In context

  • One of 9 documented reports from Nevada city, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 622 sightings in 2020.
  • Oval sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2020s (archive average: 4.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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