Canyon Country, CA, USA
hoover brite star that started moving very fast and then slow, changing to red,green,blue in color
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-10-21
- Where
- Canyon Country, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 mins.
- Geo
- 34.423, -118.472 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-canyon-country-ca-2009-8b4fcf
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
- Canyon Country, CA shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 647 reports came from California in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.