Los Angeles, CA, USA
Blue light ball streaked across east sky. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (41 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-17
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-los-angeles-ca-2016-422b96
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…
Local cluster
Los Angeles, CA logged 3 reports in the single month of August 2016.
In context
- One of 521 documented reports from Los Angeles, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 579 sightings in 2016.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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