Van Nuys, CA, USA
Their were 4 straight lines of lights with a trail of yellow tail traveling across the sky at a very fast speed and disappeared. 50
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-06-14
- Where
- Van Nuys, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 34.187, -118.449 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-van-nuys-ca-2008-20f28e
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
- Van Nuys, CA shows up 43 times across the archive.
- 709 reports came from California in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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