Irvine, CA, USA
SILVER SHIMMERING OBJECT. COULD NOT DEFINE SHAPE. CAME TO COMPLETE STOP IN SKY.
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-06-18
- Where
- Irvine, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5-7 MINUTES
- Geo
- 33.669, -117.823 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-irvine-ca-2005-c055ef
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
- Irvine, CA has 85 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 539 reports from California.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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