UFOMYST
CaseLight2004

Hesperia, CA, USA

Fire like light moved like if gravity had no effect on it. Then it became a dot to hide but it acted the same way.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (114 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-01-17
Where
Hesperia, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 min
Geo
34.426, -117.301 · exact
Slug
light-over-hesperia-ca-2004-d5d229
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

  • This is one of 29 reports logged in Hesperia, CA.
  • This case is one of 568 California reports filed in 2004.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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