CaseFormation2005

North Hollywood, CA, USA

I witnessed a UFO dogfight. ((NUFORC Note: Probably not a serious report. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 1260s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (27 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2005-01-01
Where
North Hollywood, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
21 minutes
Geo
34.172, -118.379 · exact
Slug
formation-over-north-hollywood-ca-2005-1fe85f
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…

In context

  • North Hollywood, CA has 46 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 539 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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