CaseFormation2012
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Formation of 10 to 15 bright red-orange lights appeared over Monterey Bay in California.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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- Duration parsed: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-11-11
- Where
- Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 36.974, -122.031 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-santa-cruz-ca-2012-ad8b38
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In context
- Santa Cruz, CA has 76 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 758 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
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