Santa Ana, CA, USA
A statonary Round Metallic Object, Hovering at High Altitude over Central Orange County, CA. in early January 2006
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (114 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-01-05
- Where
- Santa Ana, CA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 1/2 hour
- Geo
- 33.746, -117.868 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-santa-ana-ca-2006-b8daf5
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
- Santa Ana, CA shows up 61 times across the archive.
- 561 reports came from California in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.