CaseFlash2016

Antelope, CA, USA

Moving and stationary blue white light, low in sky 9:20 pm.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-07-24
Where
Antelope, CA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
>1 second
Geo
38.708, -121.330 · exact
Slug
flash-over-antelope-ca-2016-4c8cac
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…

In context

  • This is one of 16 reports logged in Antelope, CA.
  • This case is one of 579 California reports filed in 2016.
  • Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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