Modesto, CA, USA
Blue Neon Light appeared and vanished while hovering over North West Modesto, California
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-03-15
- Where
- Modesto, CA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 7 MINUTES
- Geo
- 37.639, -120.997 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-modesto-ca-2010-560d91
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…
Local cluster
March 2010 was a busy month for Modesto, CA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 114 reports logged in Modesto, CA.
- This case is one of 605 California reports filed in 2010.
- Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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