CaseLight2016

Hemet, CA, USA

After dark I saw a white light maybe 1000 feet in front of a low flying jet travelling due north at a relatively slow speed for a jet.

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2016-11-01
Where
Hemet, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
33.748, -116.973 · exact
Slug
light-over-hemet-ca-2016-3a464b
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

  • This is one of 41 reports logged in Hemet, CA.
  • This case is one of 579 California reports filed in 2016.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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