Yorba Linda, CA, USA
((NUFORC Note: Vandenberg AFB missile launch. PD)) Boomerang shaped object with bright light emanating from the rear of the craft.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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 (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2005-09-22
- Where
- Yorba Linda, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 33.889, -117.813 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-yorba-linda-ca-2005-57971f
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
- Yorba Linda, CA shows up 19 times across the archive.
- 539 reports came from California in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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