UFOMYST
CaseOval2005

Los Angeles (downtown), CA, USA

Flashing light over the Little Tokyo in L.A.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-09-08
Where
Los Angeles (downtown), CA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
3-5 min.
Geo
34.052, -118.244 · exact
Slug
oval-over-los-angeles-downtown-ca-2005-7822a9
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

  • Los Angeles (downtown), CA has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 539 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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