Los Angeles, CA, USA
Thought it was an airplane taking off but the angle went to far up and across the LA valley. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2014-12-12
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-los-angeles-ca-2014-a61021
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…
Local cluster
December 2014 was a busy month for Los Angeles, CA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 521 reports logged in Los Angeles, CA.
- This case is one of 869 California reports filed in 2014.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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