UFOMYST
CaseChanging2004

Hermosa Beach, CA, USA

A triangle of three flashing red round objects moving very fast and changing formation.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-11-15
Where
Hermosa Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
minutes
Geo
33.862, -118.400 · exact
Slug
changing-over-hermosa-beach-ca-2004-862824
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 →

In context

  • Hermosa Beach, CA has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 568 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 2.8% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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