Bakersfield, CA, USA
Red object displaying bizarre flight patterns before shooting directly upwards into space
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: 540s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-11-09
- Where
- Bakersfield, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 9 minutes
- Geo
- 35.373, -119.019 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-bakersfield-ca-2012-caa4eb
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
November 2012 was a busy month for Bakersfield, CA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 140 reports logged in Bakersfield, CA.
- This case is one of 758 California reports filed in 2012.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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