Buena Park, CA, USA
Outside in backyard looked up at night sky witnessed bright white light traveling very very fast for a few seconds then completely disa
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-11-17
- Where
- Buena Park, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 33.868, -117.998 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-buena-park-ca-2016-11bb9f
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 25 reports logged in Buena Park, CA.
- This case is one of 579 California reports filed in 2016.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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