Los Angeles, CA, USA
large fast-moving craft traveling east to west over Culver City area of Los Angeles
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-08-28
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-los-angeles-ca-2007-4257b3
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…
Local cluster
August 2007 was a busy month for Los Angeles, CA: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 521 reports logged in Los Angeles, CA.
- This case is one of 587 California reports filed in 2007.
- Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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