Lancaster, CA, USA
object moved in matter of seconds from east side of the sky to west side of the sky a distance of 2miles
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: 35s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-01-04
- Where
- Lancaster, CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 30-40 sec
- Geo
- 34.698, -118.137 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-lancaster-ca-2009-ccab32
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
- One of 51 documented reports from Lancaster, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 647 sightings in 2009.
- Other sightings ran at 7.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.