UFOMYST
CaseDisk2021

Tehachapi, CA, USA

single small disc like a helium balloon but flying overhead straight, steady, silent and fast just after sunset. No wind.

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (121 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-05-12
Where
Tehachapi, CA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
ca 20 seconds
Geo
35.132, -118.449 · exact
Slug
disk-over-tehachapi-ca-2021-8b8643
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

  • Tehachapi, CA has 22 sightings on file here.
  • 2021 brought 330 reports from California.
  • The 2020s skewed 3.8% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

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.