UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2015

Downey, CA, USA

Bright light shining towards what seemed to be a cloud glowing green. ((NUFORC Note: US Navy missile launch. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (69 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2015-11-07
Where
Downey, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
15-20 minutes
Geo
33.940, -118.133 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-downey-ca-2015-1a9901
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 28 documented reports from Downey, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 814 sightings in 2015.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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