CaseLight2011

El Monte, CA, USA

Star/Light object with circular counter and clockwise movements.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (64 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-11-27
Where
El Monte, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10:00 minutes
Geo
34.069, -118.028 · exact
Slug
light-over-el-monte-ca-2011-f79ab2
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…

In context

  • El Monte, CA shows up 14 times across the archive.
  • 624 reports came from California in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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