UFOMYST
CaseOval2020

Gardena, CA, USA

Flyby North to South oval shape bright object non pulsating, very fast without a sound.

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: 42s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-10-16
Where
Gardena, CA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
40-45 seconds
Geo
33.888, -118.309 · exact
Slug
oval-over-gardena-ca-2020-9d6dd6
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 13 reports logged in Gardena, CA.
  • This case is one of 622 California reports filed in 2020.
  • Oval craft made up 3.5% of 2020s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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