Tustin, CA, USA
noticed a low flying, slow flying plane. obviously a plane due to red/blue lights, and flashing white lights. made a low humming, whirr
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-11-21
- Where
- Tustin, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- circa 8 seconds
- Geo
- 33.746, -117.826 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-tustin-ca-2008-9d5df1
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
- One of 24 documented reports from Tustin, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 709 sightings in 2008.
- Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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