UFOMYST
CaseOther2017

Lake Forest, CA, USA

Long, large craft, numerous flashing white lights in sequence over Southern California.

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-04-22
Where
Lake Forest, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
1:24
Geo
33.647, -117.689 · exact
Slug
other-over-lake-forest-ca-2017-df6be0
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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In context

  • This is one of 20 reports logged in Lake Forest, CA.
  • This case is one of 594 California reports filed in 2017.
  • Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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