Lone Pine, CA, USA
Saw a flat, elongated, oval-shaped, grayish object with three lights on the underside gliding silently east of Death Valley
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-06-28
- Where
- Lone Pine, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 mins
- Geo
- 36.606, -118.065 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-lone-pine-ca-2008-b91f15
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…
In context
- Lone Pine, CA shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 709 reports came from California in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.