La Puente, CA, USA
glowing red light seen over La Puente, CA. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch from Vandenberg AFB. 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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 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
- 2011-04-14
- Where
- La Puente, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 34.020, -117.950 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-la-puente-ca-2011-abfe10
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
- La Puente, CA has 16 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 624 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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