CaseUnknown2005

Antioch, CA, USA

Lights above Antioch, CA. ((NUFORC Note: Witness remains anonymous. Possible advertising light, or hoax?? PD))

Report quality: Low2/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (25 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2005-11-08
Where
Antioch, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
38.005, -121.806 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-antioch-ca-2005-482686
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…

In context

  • This is one of 70 reports logged in Antioch, CA.
  • This case is one of 539 California reports filed in 2005.

Report

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