Los Angeles, CA, USA
Over North Hollywood CA,Aug 24, 2013 Round Glowing Object darts across the Los Angeles sky like a speeding lantern.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-08-24
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-los-angeles-ca-2013-a27f06
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Los Angeles, CA reports filed in August 2013.
In context
- Los Angeles, CA shows up 521 times across the archive.
- 728 reports came from California in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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