UFOMYST
CaseCone2008

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Unexplained object in photograph of the sky

Report quality: Moderate52/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2008-11-04
Where
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
Unlnown
Geo
34.052, -118.244 · exact
Slug
cone-over-los-angeles-ca-2008-e419ab
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

6 reports came out of Los Angeles, CA in November 2008 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Los Angeles, CA has 521 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 709 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 0.5% cone reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.4%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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