Vacaville, CA, USA
On July 24th evening, last night I was sitting outside in my hot tub in my backyard. I was gazing up at the night sky. We have a lot of
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-07-24
- Where
- Vacaville, CA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 38.357, -121.988 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-vacaville-ca-2016-15650b
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…
In context
- One of 47 documented reports from Vacaville, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 579 sightings in 2016.
- Teardrop sightings ran at 0.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.