Sant Monica, CA, USA
A group of round bright orange lights moving silently and slowly across the sky in what appeared to be part of a larger craft.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-09-28
- Where
- Sant Monica, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
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- Slug
- circle-over-sant-monica-ca-2013-871bbb
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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
- Sant Monica, CA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 728 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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