Los Angeles, CA, USA
Estimated-Time: 01:45am, Estimated-Date: October 17, 2009, Length: 7-10ft, width: 2-3ft, Color: Faded Bluish Florescent, Altitude: 40-
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-10-17
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 5-7 mins
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-los-angeles-ca-2009-8cd0b9
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Los Angeles, CA reports filed in October 2009.
In context
- Los Angeles, CA shows up 521 times across the archive.
- 647 reports came from California in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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