CaseOval2016
Van Nuys, CA, USA
Five shiny objects flying in formation over Van Nuys
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-04-21
- Where
- Van Nuys, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- ~30-60 seconds
- Geo
- 34.187, -118.449 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-van-nuys-ca-2016-e8bde5
Wave
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 43 documented reports from Van Nuys, 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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