CaseUnknown2017
Ridgecrest, CA, USA
Saw amber/orange lighted object in western sky. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (47 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-03-03
- Where
- Ridgecrest, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 35.622, -117.671 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-ridgecrest-ca-2017-ef58b6
Wave
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
- This is one of 37 reports logged in Ridgecrest, CA.
- This case is one of 594 California reports filed in 2017.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.