Palmdale, CA, USA
It appeared over head, as if materializing, I saw no heat trail from entering the atmosphere, just a spot of light.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-08-23
- Where
- Palmdale, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 2min
- Geo
- 34.579, -118.116 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-palmdale-ca-2008-ca0409
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
- This is one of 56 reports logged in Palmdale, CA.
- This case is one of 709 California reports filed in 2008.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.