CaseOval2011

San Fernando, CA, USA

WHITE LIGHT OVER SAN FERNANDO EXPLODES WHILE MOVING. ((NUFORC Note: Flare from Iridium satellite?? PD))

Report quality: Low28/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2011-07-09
Where
San Fernando, CA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
2 sec
Geo
34.282, -118.439 · exact
Slug
oval-over-san-fernando-ca-2011-256522
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

  • San Fernando, CA shows up 13 times across the archive.
  • 624 reports came from California in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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