Val Verde/Castaic, CA, USA
Two people witnessed an object that was hovering just above a mountain in the Santa Clarita Valley of southern California which had alt
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-07-25
- Where
- Val Verde/Castaic, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 34.445, -118.658 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-val-verde-castaic-ca-2008-c58d2c
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 1 reports logged in Val Verde/Castaic, CA.
- This case is one of 709 California reports filed in 2008.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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