CaseLight2013

Loma Rica, CA, USA

Red "ball" pulse once then out; white orb thought shooting star but really low and flashing light.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (98 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-07-04
Where
Loma Rica, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3
Geo
39.312, -121.418 · exact
Slug
light-over-loma-rica-ca-2013-e80391
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

  • One of 3 documented reports from Loma Rica, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 728 sightings in 2013.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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