Palmdale, CA, USA
The 3 of us watched the closest object for 30 minutes and noted 4 more farther out and higher up and could not figure out what it was
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-05-07
- Where
- Palmdale, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 34.579, -118.116 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-palmdale-ca-2006-0d1a9b
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 56 documented reports from Palmdale, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 561 sightings in 2006.
Report
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