UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2018

Castella, CA, USA

Weird light seening shooting up into the sky from the top of Castle Crags near Mt. Shasta. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (90 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-04-22
Where
Castella, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
41.138, -122.318 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-castella-ca-2018-407e28
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Castella, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 331 sightings in 2018.

Report

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