Orinda, CA, USA
About 5:35 AM (dawn breaking)look up at moon. Bright, stationary planet about 4 moon diameters to east of moon. Brightness about -3.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-06-11
- Where
- Orinda, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 37.877, -122.180 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-orinda-ca-2012-62ce27
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
- This is one of 8 reports logged in Orinda, CA.
- This case is one of 758 California reports filed in 2012.
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.