UFOMYST
CaseFlash2017

Long Beach, CA, USA

((HOAX??))After a strange noise, a bright ball crossed the sky and leave the neighborhood in a blackout for 1 min. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2017-03-12
Where
Long Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
33.767, -118.189 · exact
Slug
flash-over-long-beach-ca-2017-dc8bb6
Wave

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In context

  • One of 142 documented reports from Long Beach, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 594 sightings in 2017.
  • Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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