CaseTeardrop2010

El Monte/Monterey Park (between), CA, USA

Gray oval teardrop shaped craft flying over LA County.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (54 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-07-14
Where
El Monte/Monterey Park (between), CA, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
1 minute
Geo
34.069, -118.028 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-el-monte-monterey-park-between-ca-2010-aa7335
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…

In context

  • El Monte/Monterey Park (between), CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 605 reports came from California in 2010.
  • In the 2010s, 0.8% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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