UFOMYST
CaseLight2013

Santa Ana, CA, USA

3 extremely fast moving lights, in a delta formation, moving from N/W to S/E over southern California.

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: 9s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-09-04
Where
Santa Ana, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
8-10 seconds
Geo
33.746, -117.868 · exact
Slug
light-over-santa-ana-ca-2013-e8c0cc
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 61 documented reports from Santa Ana, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 728 sightings in 2013.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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