CaseUnknown2010

Valencia, CA, USA

Lights hovering over the 5 Freeway

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (34 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-12-17
Where
Valencia, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
3-5 min
Geo
34.444, -118.610 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-valencia-ca-2010-4eea2e
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

  • Valencia, CA has 24 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 605 reports from California.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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