UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2017

Newhall, CA, USA

Hovered over, moved slow. Look like a dark dot in sky as it got higher. ((anonymous report))

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (71 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-08-01
Where
Newhall, CA, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
34.595, -118.662 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-newhall-ca-2017-11a5b3
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…

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In context

  • Newhall, CA has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 594 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Report

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