Los Angeles, CA, USA
cigar shaped object hovers next to Los Angeles Fwy, vanishes in plain daylight
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: 14s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-10-13
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 13-15 seconds
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-los-angeles-ca-2007-1e0837
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
Los Angeles, CA logged 4 reports in the single month of October 2007.
In context
- One of 521 documented reports from Los Angeles, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 587 sightings in 2007.
- Cigar sightings ran at 2.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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