UFOMYST
CaseOther2021

Orange, CA, USA

like standing under the hull of an aircraft carrier that is broadside to you

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: 690s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-01-17
Where
Orange, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
10-13 minutes
Geo
33.788, -117.853 · exact
Slug
other-over-orange-ca-2021-49ed48
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…

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In context

  • Orange, CA has 43 sightings on file here.
  • 2021 brought 330 reports from California.
  • The 2020s skewed 6.1% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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