Victorville and Palmdale (between), CA, USA
A light source that was dropping lights out the bottom, they were not flares.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-07-04
- Where
- Victorville and Palmdale (between), CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
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- Slug
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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 1 reports logged in Victorville and Palmdale (between), CA.
- This case is one of 869 California reports filed in 2014.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
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