Garden Grove, CA, USA
Looked like a star/satellite following a polar orbit, then changing directions.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-01-11
- Where
- Garden Grove, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 33.774, -117.941 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-garden-grove-ca-2011-4ba66b
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
- Garden Grove, CA has 55 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 624 reports from California.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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