UFOMYST
CaseLight2017

West Hills, CA, USA

Strange greenish, bright light, off in the distance making right angle maneuvers.

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: 9s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-10-22
Where
West Hills, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
8-10 seconds
Geo
34.197, -118.644 · exact
Slug
light-over-west-hills-ca-2017-9f3869
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • West Hills, CA has 13 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 594 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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