Irvine, CA, USA
me and siblings were at park when i spotted strange craft that looked hundreds of feet long and had lights going down it
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-12-03
- Where
- Irvine, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.669, -117.823 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-irvine-ca-2021-309780
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
- Irvine, CA shows up 85 times across the archive.
- 330 reports came from California in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 5.2% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
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