UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2019

Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, USA

((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no data about sighting. Hoax?? PD))

Report quality: Low1/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • No witness text on file
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2019-01-26
Where
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
33.744, -118.387 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-rancho-palos-verdes-ca-2019-70c8d5
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…

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In context

  • Rancho Palos Verdes, CA shows up 15 times across the archive.
  • 510 reports came from California in 2019.

Report

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