Huntington Beach, CA, USA
Two white balls with weird illuminating smoke trail, balls where white glowing, N and split 1 going S. ((NUFORC Note: Rocket. PD))
Report quality: Low39/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (102 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
- 2017-12-22
- Where
- Huntington Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 33.660, -117.999 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-huntington-beach-ca-2017-ae9047
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…
In context
- Huntington Beach, CA has 97 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 594 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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