Laguna, Irvine, Costa Mesa, CA, USA
09/22/2011, Orange County, California, Triangle, 15 minutes. Blinking light headed toward large triangle viewed from Central Orange Co
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-09-22
- Where
- Laguna, Irvine, Costa Mesa, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 38.421, -121.424 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-laguna-irvine-costa-mesa-ca-2011-6e8117
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, Irvine, Costa Mesa, CA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 624 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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