Long Beach, CA, USA
As usual during my late night walk, I looked up and saw a medium lit light. Moving slowing opposite of the LBG airport. I thought nothi
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 23s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-10-18
- Where
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Egg
- Duration
- 23 seconds
- Geo
- 33.767, -118.189 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-long-beach-ca-2017-e7fce5
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
- Long Beach, CA has 142 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 594 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 0.7% egg reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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