Los Angeles, CA, USA
Black oval shape w/heat waves visible over 5 freeway in Silverlake
Report quality: Moderate63/100
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
- Moderate witness text (66 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-08-30
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- unknown
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-los-angeles-ca-2010-07010e
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…
Local cluster
Los Angeles, CA logged 5 reports in the single month of August 2010.
In context
- One of 521 documented reports from Los Angeles, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 605 sightings in 2010.
- Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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