Simi Valley, CA, USA
Cool blue fast flying cross shaped machine doing unbelievable gymnastics in the low sky at sunset.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-12-20
- Where
- Simi Valley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cross
- Duration
- 10 min
- Geo
- 34.269, -118.781 · exact
- Slug
- cross-over-simi-valley-ca-2009-2eb8a6
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
- Simi Valley, CA shows up 65 times across the archive.
- 647 reports came from California in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 0.3% of reports described a cross — the all-time rate is 0.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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