Big Pine, CA, USA
A bright white light lit up the dark back street I was using to get back home.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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)
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-08-28
- Where
- Big Pine, CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 1 second
- Geo
- 37.165, -118.290 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-big-pine-ca-2014-1d80d8
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 7 reports logged in Big Pine, CA.
- This case is one of 869 California reports filed in 2014.
- Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% 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.