CaseTeardrop2009
Los Angeles, CA, USA
White shape changing orb in Los Angeles sky
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (43 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-04-12
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-los-angeles-ca-2009-9f0739
Wave
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…
In context
- One of 521 documented reports from Los Angeles, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 647 sightings in 2009.
- Teardrop sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 0.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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