Los Angeles, CA, USA
it was shaped liked an octopus and it was dark in color and the arms were rotating around the center they were moveing to independently
Report quality: High73/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-09-22
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 30seconds
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-los-angeles-ca-2010-845b89
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
Los Angeles, CA logged 4 reports in the single month of September 2010.
In context
- One of 521 documented reports from Los Angeles, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 605 sightings in 2010.
- Other sightings ran at 6.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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