UFOMYST
CaseFlash2021

Simi valley, CA, USA

Flickering lights in 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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (25 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-01-20
Where
Simi valley, CA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
3 to 4 seconds
Geo
34.269, -118.781 · exact
Slug
flash-over-simi-valley-ca-2021-3064d4
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

  • Simi valley, CA shows up 65 times across the archive.
  • 330 reports came from California in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 1.1% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

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.