Carson, CA, USA
Reddish object produced flashes of light, discharged a gaseus material, dissappeared, reappeared and dissapeared again.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-01-29
- Where
- Carson, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.831, -118.282 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-carson-ca-2005-424e54
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 14 documented reports from Carson, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 539 sightings in 2005.
Report
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