Long Beach, CA, USA
The Aircraft was a circle it white lights surrounding it with one on top of it.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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 (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-08-06
- Where
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 33.767, -118.189 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-long-beach-ca-2011-c76a46
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 Long Beach, CA reports filed in August 2011.
In context
- Long Beach, CA shows up 142 times across the archive.
- 624 reports came from California in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 0.4% of reports described a cone — the all-time rate is 0.4%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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