Garden Grove, CA, USA
"Streaking Green Light" ((NUFORC Note: Good video, but anomalous light may be a lens flare, caused by a car headlight. PD))
Report quality: Low28/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (23 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2021-10-04
- Where
- Garden Grove, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 33.774, -117.941 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-garden-grove-ca-2021-4d6d98
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 55 reports logged in Garden Grove, CA.
- This case is one of 330 California reports filed in 2021.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2020s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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