CaseChevron2016

Huntington Beach, CA, USA

Fast-moving craft with gray lights over suburban Huntington Beach.

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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-12-04
Where
Huntington Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
10-15 seconds
Geo
33.660, -117.999 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-huntington-beach-ca-2016-904e52
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

  • This is one of 97 reports logged in Huntington Beach, CA.
  • This case is one of 579 California reports filed in 2016.
  • Chevron craft made up 1.1% of 2010s reports, vs 1.1% across the whole archive.

Report

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