Santa Ana, CA, USA
Shape of a saucer. Moved quickly. Was only 1; grey. I'm a 29 yr old college-educated female. ((anonymous report))
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-22
- Where
- Santa Ana, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 33.746, -117.868 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-santa-ana-ca-2016-630988
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.
- 579 reports came from California in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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