UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2011

Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Flying Saucer Photo

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (19 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-12-28
Where
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
—
Geo
34.421, -119.698 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-santa-barbara-ca-2011-b7eaec
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…

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In context

  • Santa Barbara, CA shows up 117 times across the archive.
  • 624 reports came from California in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.

Report

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