Irvine/Costa Mesa (between), CA, USA
I was driving on 405 freeway going north. I noticed red flashing orbs side by side.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-04-14
- Where
- Irvine/Costa Mesa (between), CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5+ minutes
- Geo
- 33.669, -117.823 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-irvine-costa-mesa-between-ca-2017-34d88f
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
- Irvine/Costa Mesa (between), CA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 594 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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