UFOMYST
CaseOther2012

Lone Pine, CA, USA

Unusual object that appeared suddenly. ((NUFORC Note: We strongly suspect that the object is a bird, possibly a hummingbird. PD))

Report quality: Low26/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (38 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
2012-10-28
Where
Lone Pine, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
Seconds
Geo
36.606, -118.065 · exact
Slug
other-over-lone-pine-ca-2012-cc5588
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 9 reports logged in Lone Pine, CA.
  • This case is one of 758 California reports filed in 2012.
  • Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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