UFOMYST
CaseOther2004

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Dozens, maybe 100 plane trails over San Fernando Valley and Sepulveda Pass, Los Angeles ((NUFORC Note: Contrails?? PD))

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.

  • Duration parsed: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2004-03-08
Where
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
45 min
Geo
34.052, -118.244 · exact
Slug
other-over-los-angeles-ca-2004-4c1c0d
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

Los Angeles, CA logged 3 reports in the single month of March 2004.

In context

  • One of 521 documented reports from Los Angeles, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
  • Other sightings ran at 7.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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