Garden Grove, CA, USA
Bright light in Eastern skyline for over an hour in 1 place. Light gets brighter than fades but is present at same location. In sky pl
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-09-02
- Where
- Garden Grove, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 hour +
- Geo
- 33.774, -117.941 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-garden-grove-ca-2017-76468f
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
- Garden Grove, CA has 55 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 594 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
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.