Highland, CA, USA
We noticed the bigger light about 3 miles away from the freeway. After stopping for gas, we saw that it was still in the same spot, and
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-01-08
- Where
- Highland, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10-15 minutes
- Geo
- 34.128, -117.209 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-highland-ca-2017-c0e57d
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
- One of 16 documented reports from Highland, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 594 sightings in 2017.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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