Lake Elsinore, CA, USA
Three craft arranged in triangle formation that hovered and then dissappeared. ((NUFORC Note: Suspected parachute jumpers. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2011-01-06
- Where
- Lake Elsinore, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.668, -117.327 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-lake-elsinore-ca-2011-40d6dc
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
- This is one of 37 reports logged in Lake Elsinore, CA.
- This case is one of 624 California reports filed in 2011.
- Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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