UFOMYST
CaseLight2006

Whittier, CA, USA

Amazing sighting in Whittier. (Frequent sighting) ((NUFORC Note: Possible celestial bodies, perhaps "twinkling" stars?? PD))

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2006-03-11
Where
Whittier, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
45 Min
Geo
33.979, -118.033 · exact
Slug
light-over-whittier-ca-2006-2ed0ba
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

March 2006 was a busy month for Whittier, CA: 6 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 62 reports logged in Whittier, CA.
  • This case is one of 561 California reports filed in 2006.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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