UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2010

Placentia, CA, USA

Very dim falling star with amber light flying horizontal at about 600mph in LAX landing path with no trail.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-06-15
Where
Placentia, CA, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
33.872, -117.870 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-placentia-ca-2010-58cd8f
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

  • Placentia, CA shows up 15 times across the archive.
  • 605 reports came from California in 2010.
  • In the 2010s, 0.8% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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