CaseFlash1974
Orange, CA, USA
Car radio goes dead, bright light.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (34 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-02-15
- Where
- Orange, CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 33.788, -117.853 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-orange-ca-1974-e8ed0c
In context
- Orange, CA has 43 sightings on file here.
- 1974 brought 33 reports from California.
- The 1970s skewed 0.5% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
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.