UFOMYST
CaseFlash2012

Palmdale, CA, USA

Bright flash shoots a beam of light horizontally across the night sky

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (69 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-25
Where
Palmdale, CA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
3-4 seconds
Geo
34.579, -118.116 · exact
Slug
flash-over-palmdale-ca-2012-4c86da
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

  • One of 56 documented reports from Palmdale, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 758 sightings in 2012.
  • Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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