Tehachapi, CA, USA
We seen a flashing light shooting through the sky faster then any plan and no sound leaving a wide smoke trail. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-11-20
- Where
- Tehachapi, CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 35.132, -118.449 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-tehachapi-ca-2018-b2ead0
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
- Tehachapi, CA has 22 sightings on file here.
- 2018 brought 331 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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