Orange, CA, USA
Extremely loud noise followed by a falling red, white, and green orb; soon after blue light flies by overhead.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-10-13
- Where
- Orange, CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 33.788, -117.853 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-orange-ca-2015-ce84f1
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 43 reports logged in Orange, CA.
- This case is one of 814 California reports filed in 2015.
- Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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