UFOMYST
CaseOval2021

Redondo Beach, CA, USA

Unidentifying object over the ocean in Redondo Beach California. Caught on photo

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-01-22
Where
Redondo Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
10second
Geo
33.849, -118.388 · exact
Slug
oval-over-redondo-beach-ca-2021-ce321d
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

  • One of 40 documented reports from Redondo Beach, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 330 sightings in 2021.
  • Oval sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2020s (archive average: 4.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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