UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2010

Ventura, CA, USA

December 9, 2010 Just after 8:00pm Ventura, California I was driving home from a business meeting on the northbound 101 freeway when I

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-12-09
Where
Ventura, CA, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
34.278, -119.293 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-ventura-ca-2010-e28960
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

  • One of 91 documented reports from Ventura, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 605 sightings in 2010.
  • Teardrop sightings ran at 0.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).

Report

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