Laguna Beach, CA, USA
Located about 40/50 deg, up from the hor. in the sw sky from my vantage point in Laguna Beach. ((NUFORC Note: Jupiter?? PD))
Report quality: Low29/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (94 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
- 2011-02-10
- Where
- Laguna Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- hours
- Geo
- 33.542, -117.783 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-laguna-beach-ca-2011-f2fd89
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
- Laguna Beach, CA shows up 23 times across the archive.
- 624 reports came from California in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.