CaseCylinder2017

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Two objects over Los Angeles. ((NUFORC Note: Rocket launch at 5:27 p.m.. PD))

Report quality: Moderate50/100

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
  • Brief witness text (29 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-12-22
Where
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
25 minutes
Geo
34.052, -118.244 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-los-angeles-ca-2017-4341a3
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

Los Angeles, CA logged 4 reports in the single month of December 2017.

In context

  • One of 521 documented reports from Los Angeles, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 594 sightings in 2017.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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