Yorba Linda, CA, USA
A saucer sighted in Orange County doing out of the ordinary manuevars including dropping or gaining several hundred feet in 1 second.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-11-05
- Where
- Yorba Linda, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 33.889, -117.813 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-yorba-linda-ca-2006-e2455a
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
- Yorba Linda, CA has 19 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 561 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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