CaseLight2013

Garden Grove, CA, USA

I was driving east on Highway 22 at Beach Blvd. It was hovering over the Brookhurst area it all of a sudden flew over highway 22 in an

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-12-07
Where
Garden Grove, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
33.774, -117.941 · exact
Slug
light-over-garden-grove-ca-2013-3f13b7
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Garden Grove, CA in December 2013 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Garden Grove, CA has 55 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 728 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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