Long Beach, CA, USA
UFO seen in Long Beach California; Air traffic rerouted, helicopters search and no word in the media!
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: 1560s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-03-17
- Where
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 26 minutes
- Geo
- 33.767, -118.189 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-long-beach-ca-2009-2315cf
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…
Local cluster
March 2009 was a busy month for Long Beach, CA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 142 reports logged in Long Beach, CA.
- This case is one of 647 California reports filed in 2009.
- Changing craft made up 2.8% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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