UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2006

Imperial Beach, CA, USA

Saw 5 lights in the shape of what I first thought was a plane. It appeared to be no more than 300 to 400 yards off the ground. It was f

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-10-25
Where
Imperial Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
10 sec
Geo
32.584, -117.113 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-imperial-beach-ca-2006-cbd14a
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 17 documented reports from Imperial Beach, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 561 sightings in 2006.

Report

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