CaseTriangle2010

Santa Ana, CA, USA

i was walking to my car to check my tire because i got a slow leak. anyhow, on the way back to the house i notice some flashing in one

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-04-02
Where
Santa Ana, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 min
Geo
33.746, -117.868 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-santa-ana-ca-2010-13c4c2
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…

In context

  • Santa Ana, CA has 61 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 605 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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