Long Beach, CA, USA
3 Whitish-yellow lights in the shape of a triangle at 1st glance i thought it was a shooting star but it kept going fast and silent.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-01-27
- Where
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 33.767, -118.189 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-long-beach-ca-2013-e2c2ae
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 142 documented reports from Long Beach, 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 daysReport
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