Tracy, CA, USA
((NUFORC Note: Student report? PD)) On this odd night my little brother was coming home froms his friends house.
Report quality: Moderate63/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (76 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-10-26
- Where
- Tracy, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 37.740, -121.426 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-tracy-ca-2005-6ed1cc
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Tracy, CA reports filed in October 2005.
In context
- Tracy, CA shows up 36 times across the archive.
- 539 reports came from California in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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