Santa Clara, CA, USA
Black disk shaped object motionless observing airport free falls and wobbles back up and vanishes.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-06-30
- Where
- Santa Clara, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 2 min
- Geo
- 37.354, -121.955 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-santa-clara-ca-2005-a46b1e
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
- Santa Clara, CA has 37 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 539 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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