Redondo Beach, CA, USA
7-8 Craft resembling balloons on fire seen cruising off Southern California coast. ((NUFORC Note: In LAX flight corridor? PD))
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 390s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-03-09
- Where
- Redondo Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 6-7 minutes
- Geo
- 33.849, -118.388 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-redondo-beach-ca-2013-d2ba44
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
- Redondo Beach, CA shows up 40 times across the archive.
- 728 reports came from California in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
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