Garden Grove, CA, USA
it sound like plane, color orange, and spark with the sun, also with out wings, and faster then any plain I know.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-03-15
- Where
- Garden Grove, CA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 2 min
- Geo
- 33.774, -117.941 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-garden-grove-ca-2005-61f4bc
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
- Garden Grove, CA shows up 55 times across the archive.
- 539 reports came from California in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
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