UFOMYST
CaseFlash2014

Lancaster, CA, USA

Orange flash in lancaster sky.

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (30 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-10-28
Where
Lancaster, CA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
34.698, -118.137 · exact
Slug
flash-over-lancaster-ca-2014-c9c126
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…

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In context

  • Lancaster, CA shows up 51 times across the archive.
  • 869 reports came from California in 2014.
  • In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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