El Centro, CA, USA
I saw this bright light kind of white blue light fly slow moving toward the northeast.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-08-12
- Where
- El Centro, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 min.
- Geo
- 32.792, -115.563 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-el-centro-ca-2011-1e4712
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
- El Centro, CA shows up 21 times across the archive.
- 624 reports came from California in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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