Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
I was driving west on the 101 freeway between Woodman and Van Nuys blvd off ramps. I looked up as a Red Flashing Object caught my eye.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-01-04
- Where
- Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 34.151, -118.449 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-sherman-oaks-ca-2015-c7b61c
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
- Sherman Oaks, CA shows up 40 times across the archive.
- 814 reports came from California in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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