Fountain Valley, CA, USA
At least 3 orange points of light varying in brightness and movement at night lower than Mars
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-03-14
- Where
- Fountain Valley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 33.709, -117.954 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-fountain-valley-ca-2012-ddea96
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 16 reports logged in Fountain Valley, CA.
- This case is one of 758 California reports filed in 2012.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
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.