UFOMYST
CaseOval2013

Tracy, CA, USA

04/21/2013 04:45 oblong orange/yellow bright light traveling west to east in Tracy, CA for 30-60 seonds, then disappeared

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (121 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-04-21
Where
Tracy, CA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
30-60 seconds
Geo
37.740, -121.426 · exact
Slug
oval-over-tracy-ca-2013-31eedb
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…

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In context

  • Tracy, CA shows up 36 times across the archive.
  • 728 reports came from California in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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