Los Angeles, CA, USA
The ball of light moved from one place to another at the blink of an eye, circling around the night sky until it flew higher and vanish
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-07-23
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 15 min
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-los-angeles-ca-2004-1f5a74
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…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Los Angeles, CA in July 2004 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Los Angeles, CA has 521 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 568 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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