UFOMYST
CaseFormation2016

Rosamond, CA, USA

((HOAX??)) Long orange diagonal lights over Tehachapi Mountains.

Report quality: Low18/100

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  • Duration parsed: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2016-06-25
Where
Rosamond, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
15-20 minutes
Geo
34.864, -118.163 · exact
Slug
formation-over-rosamond-ca-2016-5c88af
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

  • One of 18 documented reports from Rosamond, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 579 sightings in 2016.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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