CaseTeardrop1999
Elk Grove, CA, USA
While waiting in McDonald's drive-thru line, I was looking up at several high, thin stratos clouds against a clear blue sky. I observe
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-02-20
- Where
- Elk Grove, CA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 60 seconds
- Geo
- 38.409, -121.372 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-elk-grove-ca-1999-294de5
In context
- This is one of 46 reports logged in Elk Grove, CA.
- This case is one of 407 California reports filed in 1999.
- Teardrop craft made up 0.8% of 1990s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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