Orland, CA, USA
Eight round balls of light if you look at the picture video one appears not to be lit up
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-11-28
- Where
- Orland, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.747, -122.196 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-orland-ca-2017-f163f1
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
- One of 20 documented reports from Orland, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 594 sightings in 2017.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 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.