Pasadena, CA, USA
Pulsing yellow light from segmented linked blocks, hovered for a minute, moved a short distance, hovered, then traversed west
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-02-06
- Where
- Pasadena, CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 34.148, -118.145 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-pasadena-ca-2022-fe59b0
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
- Pasadena, CA shows up 56 times across the archive.
- 113 reports came from California in 2022.
- In the 2020s, 6.1% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.