UFOMYST
CaseSphere2017

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Light burst followed by trailing, the initial sphere shaped light split into two. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))((anonymous))

Report quality: Moderate53/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-12-22
Where
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
34.052, -118.244 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-los-angeles-ca-2017-98ca63
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

4 reports came out of Los Angeles, CA in December 2017 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Los Angeles, CA has 521 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 594 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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