UFOMYST
CaseDisk2021

Manhattan Beach, CA, USA

I was actually surfing just south of the Manhattan Beach pier & sitting on my board. There was an object that caught my eye. I thought

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-09-27
Where
Manhattan Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
33.885, -118.411 · exact
Slug
disk-over-manhattan-beach-ca-2021-44c516
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 →

In context

  • Manhattan Beach, CA shows up 16 times across the archive.
  • 330 reports came from California in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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