UFOMYST
CaseOther2017

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Odd, almost humanoid UFO seen over Northeast LA (Highland Park/Hermon). ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a balloon. PD))

Report quality: Moderate53/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (71 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-04-16
Where
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
6 minutes
Geo
34.052, -118.244 · exact
Slug
other-over-los-angeles-ca-2017-0f4083
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 April 2017.

In context

  • One of 521 documented reports from Los Angeles, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 594 sightings in 2017.
  • Other sightings ran at 6.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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