UFOMYST
CaseLight2019

Downey, CA, USA

Bright light, brighter than any star in the sky fades out of view in an instant. ((NUFORC Note: Possible flare from a satellite??PD))

Report quality: Low31/100

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)
  • Moderate witness text (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2019-12-20
Where
Downey, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
33.940, -118.133 · exact
Slug
light-over-downey-ca-2019-c5bb42
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 28 reports logged in Downey, CA.
  • This case is one of 510 California reports filed in 2019.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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