UFOMYST
CaseOval2021

Bell Gardens, CA, USA

The unidentified flying object glowed in the early morning lit up sky almost seethrough but very distinguishable, as if it glowed very

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-01-21
Where
Bell Gardens, CA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
33.965, -118.151 · exact
Slug
oval-over-bell-gardens-ca-2021-40dd31
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…

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In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Bell Gardens, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 330 sightings in 2021.
  • Oval sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2020s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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