Los Angeles, CA, USA
Star/sphere like object moving back and forth.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (46 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-12-27
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-los-angeles-ca-2008-54236d
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
December 2008 was a busy month for Los Angeles, CA: 6 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 521 reports logged in Los Angeles, CA.
- This case is one of 709 California reports filed in 2008.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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