Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
Saw a large orange flash of light looking like a star t, was moving slowly and stopped, shrunk smaller and started moving quickly acro
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-06-14
- Where
- Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 34.171, -118.838 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-thousand-oaks-ca-2013-9142e0
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
- Thousand Oaks, CA has 38 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 728 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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