Pico Rivera, CA, USA
in mid-May 2004 at around 2:30am (PDT), i went outside to grab my book bag out of my car. when all of a sudden i saw two dark yellow/br
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-05-11
- Where
- Pico Rivera, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.983, -118.097 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-pico-rivera-ca-2004-d6b1e3
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
- This is one of 22 reports logged in Pico Rivera, CA.
- This case is one of 568 California reports filed in 2004.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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