Santa Monica, CA, USA
Extremely bright light formation and disc shape over Santa Monica mountains.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (76 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-05-12
- Where
- Santa Monica, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- Approx 20 mins
- Geo
- 34.019, -118.491 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-santa-monica-ca-2004-b1b785
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…
Local cluster
May 2004 was a busy month for Santa Monica, CA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 61 reports logged in Santa Monica, CA.
- This case is one of 568 California reports filed in 2004.
- Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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