Los Angeles, CA, USA
A possible UFO cigar-ed shaped is moving and hovering in the air for about 20 minutes while airplanes land and take off LAX airport.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-12-06
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 20 to 30 minutes
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-los-angeles-ca-2010-288de9
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
3 reports came out of Los Angeles, CA in December 2010 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Los Angeles, CA has 521 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 605 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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