UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2004

Berkeley, CA, USA

While driving my car in the mid afternoon of a day in the fall of 2004 on HYW 580 East-bound I had just crossed the San Rafael / Richmo

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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  • Duration parsed: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2004-10-10
Where
Berkeley, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
37.872, -122.273 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-berkeley-ca-2004-868c98
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…

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In context

  • Berkeley, CA shows up 37 times across the archive.
  • 568 reports came from California in 2004.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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