Spring Valley, CA, USA
Clear blue sky, light moon-shaped object appears twice into different places miles up in the sky.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (97 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-08-15
- Where
- Spring Valley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 MINS
- Geo
- 32.745, -116.999 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-spring-valley-ca-2004-25925a
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
- This is one of 30 reports logged in Spring Valley, CA.
- This case is one of 568 California reports filed in 2004.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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