CaseOval2018

Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA

Small Oval Like Object Splits Into Two and Zips Back and Forth from in Under 3/12 Minutes Over San Gabriel Mountains.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (117 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-01-13
Where
Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
34.106, -117.593 · exact
Slug
oval-over-rancho-cucamonga-ca-2018-98a120
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

  • This is one of 47 reports logged in Rancho Cucamonga, CA.
  • This case is one of 331 California reports filed in 2018.
  • Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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