CaseOther2006

Malibu, CA, USA

There was a hovering, body of some sort, flashing very bright light, almost like a bouy, in the sky.... It would only flash light.... a

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-04-11
Where
Malibu, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
34.026, -118.780 · exact
Slug
other-over-malibu-ca-2006-4748b2
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…

In context

  • Malibu, CA shows up 28 times across the archive.
  • 561 reports came from California in 2006.
  • In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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