Malibu, CA, USA
((HOAX??)) Huge, "aircraft carrier" -sized, and -shaped, ufo off-shore in Malibu, with brilliant and beautiful star colored lights.
Report quality: Low25/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2015-01-29
- Where
- Malibu, CA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 34.026, -118.780 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-malibu-ca-2015-cfebb1
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
- Malibu, CA has 28 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 814 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 1.7% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
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.