Banning, CA, USA
From Banning looking S I saw a light that I first thought was a cabin in the mountains nearby. ((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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-10-28
- Where
- Banning, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 33.926, -116.876 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-banning-ca-2017-21d3bb
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
- Banning, CA shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 594 reports came from California in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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