Westlake Village, CA, USA
Driving on the 101 freeway north between Lindero Canyon and Westlake Boulevard exits, watching a rather remarkable sunset, there sudden
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-28
- Where
- Westlake Village, CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 25 seconds
- Geo
- 34.146, -118.806 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-westlake-village-ca-2009-3e5116
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 7 documented reports from Westlake Village, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 647 sightings in 2009.
- Flash sightings ran at 1.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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