Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, USA
Bright, fast bar of light in the sky in Southern CA on 2/28/21 at 9:15PM
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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 (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-02-28
- Where
- Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 33.744, -118.387 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-rancho-palos-verdes-ca-2021-5bd022
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
- This is one of 15 reports logged in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA.
- This case is one of 330 California reports filed in 2021.
- Cigar craft made up 2.6% of 2020s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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