Lake Forest, CA, USA
This thing was flying away from us, once we noticed it the object flew towards us and changed the color of its lights.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (118 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-19
- Where
- Lake Forest, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3 min
- Geo
- 33.647, -117.689 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-lake-forest-ca-2009-a55f67
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
- Lake Forest, CA has 20 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 647 reports from California.
Report
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