CaseUnknown2002
Palos Verdes Estates, CA, USA
Powerful light with odd-shaped trails pierced the clouds ((Vandenberg rocket launch. PD))
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-10-14
- Where
- Palos Verdes Estates, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.801, -118.392 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-palos-verdes-estates-ca-2002-3efc67
In context
- One of 4 documented reports from Palos Verdes Estates, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 430 sightings in 2002.
Report
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