Palos Verdes, CA, USA
3 Possible Missile Launches Seen @ Sunset off Los Angeles, CA (appx) 50nm
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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (73 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-02-12
- Where
- Palos Verdes, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 40 mins
- Geo
- 33.388, -118.433 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-palos-verdes-ca-2011-c19444
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
- Palos Verdes, CA shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 624 reports came from California in 2011.
Report
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