Los Angeles, CA, USA
Dense, bright blue light in a long oval shape observed and then faded into a dark cloud over Silver Lake/Glendale area of LA.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-07-28
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-los-angeles-ca-2021-7be57c
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
July 2021 was a busy month for Los Angeles, CA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 521 reports logged in Los Angeles, CA.
- This case is one of 330 California reports filed in 2021.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2020s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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