CaseUnknown2009

Pomona, CA, USA

Object moving at what looked like warp speed with trailing white tail

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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)
  • Moderate witness text (69 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-10-16
Where
Pomona, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
2 Seconds
Geo
34.055, -117.752 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-pomona-ca-2009-478f90
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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 40 documented reports from Pomona, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 647 sightings in 2009.

Report

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