Acton, CA, USA
Bluish/greenish light flashing on a white object traveling faster than any figher jet with no sound.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-21
- Where
- Acton, CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 10-20 seconds
- Geo
- 34.470, -118.197 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-acton-ca-2020-929bda
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
- One of 6 documented reports from Acton, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 622 sightings in 2020.
- Flash sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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