Anaheim, CA, USA
Strange bright light on the sky that left a green trail that later disappeared. ((NUFORC Note: US Navy missile launch. PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2015-11-07
- Where
- Anaheim, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 25 seconds
- Geo
- 33.835, -117.915 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-anaheim-ca-2015-0125f3
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…
Local cluster
November 2015 was a busy month for Anaheim, CA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 96 reports logged in Anaheim, CA.
- This case is one of 814 California reports filed in 2015.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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