UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2013

W. Sacramento, CA, USA

Possible satellite - white light that flares up and then always blacks out. ((NUFORC Note: Iridium, or satellite? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (75 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
2013-07-16
Where
W. Sacramento, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
38.580, -121.530 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-w-sacramento-ca-2013-0b98a0
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

W. Sacramento, CA logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2013.

In context

  • One of 5 documented reports from W. Sacramento, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 728 sightings in 2013.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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