CaseUnknown2012

Corona, CA, USA

Possible UFO sighting in Corona, CA. Silvery reflective object flying at altitude suddenly stops and hovers.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-19
Where
Corona, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
33.875, -117.566 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-corona-ca-2012-18224e
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

  • Corona, CA shows up 72 times across the archive.
  • 758 reports came from California in 2012.

Report

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