UFOMYST
CaseOther2017

Santa Ana, CA, USA

UFO over Santa Ana 12/2217 5:40pm ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch from Vandenberg AFB. PD))

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (33 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-12-22
Where
Santa Ana, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
33.746, -117.868 · exact
Slug
other-over-santa-ana-ca-2017-85ad8a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

December 2017 was a busy month for Santa Ana, CA: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 61 reports logged in Santa Ana, CA.
  • This case is one of 594 California reports filed in 2017.
  • Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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