Los Angeles, CA, USA
I observed a single white light heading vertically upward approximately south of my home in Los Angeles.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-05-16
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- ~1 minute
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-los-angeles-ca-2020-b84547
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…
Local cluster
May 2020 was a busy month for Los Angeles, CA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 521 reports logged in Los Angeles, CA.
- This case is one of 622 California reports filed in 2020.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2020s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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