CaseCylinder2006

Harbor City, CA, USA

Orignially, party of six looked up at a low flying aircraft then all six spotted at5000 feet AGL, clydrical shape with 4 dish fairings,

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-09-07
Where
Harbor City, CA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
33.790, -118.298 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-harbor-city-ca-2006-0285c6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Harbor City, CA has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2006 brought 561 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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