CaseLight2005

Palmdale, CA, USA

Pale green light moving slowly from west to east and then going straight up at a very fast speed and disappered.

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (112 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-02-27
Where
Palmdale, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 SECONDS
Geo
34.579, -118.116 · exact
Slug
light-over-palmdale-ca-2005-947fcf
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

  • This is one of 56 reports logged in Palmdale, CA.
  • This case is one of 539 California reports filed in 2005.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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