Los Angeles, CA, USA
I saw a light in the night sky in a Northern direction towards the Hollywood Hills.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-10-27
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-los-angeles-ca-2016-05f16d
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
- One of 521 documented reports from Los Angeles, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 579 sightings in 2016.
- Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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