Fontana, CA, USA
No craft just a long white smoke (thin white cloud) trail. ((NUFORC Note: Possible contrail? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2015-02-23
- Where
- Fontana, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 1 hour?
- Geo
- 34.092, -117.435 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-fontana-ca-2015-0965b3
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
- Fontana, CA shows up 53 times across the archive.
- 814 reports came from California in 2015.
Report
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