San Fernando Valley, CA, USA
Insanely bright, large circle and electrical warping noises in the San Fernando Valley around 3:21 AM.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-05-17
- Where
- San Fernando Valley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- Flash was less then a hal
- Geo
- 34.328, -118.329 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-san-fernando-valley-ca-2015-eb92ed
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 Fernando Valley, CA has 12 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 814 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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