CaseUnknown2010
Orange, CA, USA
Mysterious Rays Light Up Night Sky in Orange, California
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-10-02
- Where
- Orange, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 2 min.
- Geo
- 33.788, -117.853 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-orange-ca-2010-0fa9b9
Wave
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
- Orange, CA shows up 43 times across the archive.
- 605 reports came from California in 2010.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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