Los Angeles, CA, USA
I was driving down the street when i came to a red light. I took my phone out ,stuck it out the window and took pictures of a building
Report quality: High73/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-04-18
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-los-angeles-ca-2017-515cac
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
April 2017 was a busy month for Los Angeles, CA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 521 reports logged in Los Angeles, CA.
- This case is one of 594 California reports filed in 2017.
- Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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