Huntington Beach, CA, USA
Large craft with two red lights hovering in sky tracked by a police helicopter for several minutes.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-10-02
- Where
- Huntington Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 33.660, -117.999 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-huntington-beach-ca-2006-c6b1e3
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 97 reports logged in Huntington Beach, CA.
- This case is one of 561 California reports filed in 2006.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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