San Pedro, CA, USA
Outside of my window on Christmas day (from second story apartment), I had a strange feeling to look outside and so I did. I noticed im
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-12-25
- Where
- San Pedro, CA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 33.736, -118.292 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-san-pedro-ca-2020-ade109
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
- San Pedro, CA has 38 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 622 reports from California.
- The 2020s skewed 3.1% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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