Garden Grove, CA, USA
((HOAX??)) A green light flashing and moving around in the sky.
Report quality: Low28/100
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2008-02-01
- Where
- Garden Grove, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 6 Seconds
- Geo
- 33.774, -117.941 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-garden-grove-ca-2008-c4b299
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Garden Grove, CA reports filed in February 2008.
In context
- Garden Grove, CA shows up 55 times across the archive.
- 709 reports came from California in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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