UFOMYST
CaseLight2004

Whittier, CA, USA

For the past few days I and some friends have been gazing at the stars ((NUFORC Note: "Twinkling" star, we wonder?? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (70 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2004-09-02
Where
Whittier, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
ongoing
Geo
33.979, -118.033 · exact
Slug
light-over-whittier-ca-2004-096475
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

  • One of 62 documented reports from Whittier, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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