Northridge, CA, USA
We're not sure what we saw - if it was a meteor or a craft. It went very quickly, at an arc downward, and vanished. It was a huge brigh
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-10-31
- Where
- Northridge, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 34.228, -118.537 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-northridge-ca-2005-ec454b
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
- Northridge, CA has 16 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 539 reports from California.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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