UFOMYST
CaseDisk2012

Saugus, CA, USA

It showed up and disappeared then left

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (38 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-09-05
Where
Saugus, CA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
34.411, -118.540 · exact
Slug
disk-over-saugus-ca-2012-cbc8a2
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

  • One of 10 documented reports from Saugus, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 758 sightings in 2012.
  • Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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