At sea (Long Beach, 3 hrs. S of), CA, USA
We were on a cruise ship approximately 3 hours out of Long beach California. Sighted two glowing orbs and one beneath the surface of th
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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 (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-02-25
- Where
- At sea (Long Beach, 3 hrs. S of), CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- formation-over-at-sea-long-beach-3-hrs-s-of-ca-2022-12953d
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 1 reports logged in At sea (Long Beach, 3 hrs. S of), CA.
- This case is one of 113 California reports filed in 2022.
- Formation craft made up 5.2% of 2020s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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