Monterey, CA, USA
While videoing at the Orion area I saw some large flashing lights don't no what they are. No airplanes!
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-01-31
- Where
- Monterey, CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 25 minutes
- Geo
- 36.600, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-monterey-ca-2013-b8bf7c
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
- Monterey, CA shows up 39 times across the archive.
- 728 reports came from California in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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