UFOMYST
CaseFlash2018

Torrance, CA, USA

Bright red and green flashing lights with no flight path and rapid acceleration below horizon.

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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-10-18
Where
Torrance, CA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
4-5 minutes
Geo
33.836, -118.341 · exact
Slug
flash-over-torrance-ca-2018-12d010
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 51 reports logged in Torrance, CA.
  • This case is one of 331 California reports filed in 2018.
  • Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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