CaseFlash2020

Glendale, CA, USA

Fast-flashing light crossed the sky at intervals while moving VERY fast.

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (72 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-11-02
Where
Glendale, CA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
6 seconds
Geo
34.143, -118.255 · exact
Slug
flash-over-glendale-ca-2020-70c957
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…

In context

  • One of 39 documented reports from Glendale, 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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