Redlands, CA, USA
Large glowing green, comet shaped object, flying North over Redlands and then “winks” out of existence before reaching the horizon.
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-02-15
- Where
- Redlands, CA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 34.056, -117.183 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-redlands-ca-2020-311f60
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 36 documented reports from Redlands, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 622 sightings in 2020.
- Teardrop sightings ran at 0.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 0.9%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.