Whittier, CA, USA
Red Shimmering Object over Whittier California
Report quality: High74/100
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: 2100s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (46 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-03-10
- Where
- Whittier, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- About 35 minutes
- Geo
- 33.979, -118.033 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-whittier-ca-2006-f17718
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 6 Whittier, CA reports filed in March 2006.
In context
- Whittier, CA shows up 62 times across the archive.
- 561 reports came from California in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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