San Fernando, CA, USA
My son and I were playing catch in the backyard when my 8 year old son said, "Look what is that in the air."
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-03-05
- Where
- San Fernando, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 34.282, -118.439 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-san-fernando-ca-2017-5db51d
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
- This is one of 13 reports logged in San Fernando, CA.
- This case is one of 594 California reports filed in 2017.
Report
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