UFOMYST
CaseDisk2005

Los Angeles (Playa del Rey), CA, USA

Object was viewed from the parking lot of the La Marina Restaurant in Playa del Rey, a beach community that is part of the city of LA.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-11-16
Where
Los Angeles (Playa del Rey), CA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
34.052, -118.244 · exact
Slug
disk-over-los-angeles-playa-del-rey-ca-2005-2f8515
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Los Angeles (Playa del Rey), CA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 539 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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