UFOMYST
CaseCone2004

Santa Monica, CA, USA

Unknown object over Santa Monica, CA.

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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (37 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-12-18
Where
Santa Monica, CA, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
40 Minutes
Geo
34.019, -118.491 · exact
Slug
cone-over-santa-monica-ca-2004-d010c9
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Santa Monica, CA has 61 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 568 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 0.5% cone reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.4%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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