Spring Valley, CA, USA
Yellowish oval shaped object moving from the southeast to the northwest. Floated over la mesa, intersection 8 and 54 and el cajon area.
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-17
- Where
- Spring Valley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 20-30 seconds
- Geo
- 32.745, -116.999 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-spring-valley-ca-2020-4eebb4
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 30 documented reports from Spring Valley, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 622 sightings in 2020.
- Oval sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2020s (archive average: 4.3%).
Report
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