UFOMYST
CaseOval2009

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Unexplained orange glow, craft, over Los Angeles. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of a celestial body. PD))

Report quality: Low26/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-07-18
Where
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
~2:00 hours
Geo
34.052, -118.244 · exact
Slug
oval-over-los-angeles-ca-2009-9fc16d
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

This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Los Angeles, CA reports filed in July 2009.

In context

  • Los Angeles, CA shows up 521 times across the archive.
  • 647 reports came from California in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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