Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Bright orange lights hovering around the moon and horizon, then rising up and disappearing
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-01-13
- Where
- Santa Rosa, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 38.440, -122.714 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-santa-rosa-ca-2017-62def7
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
Santa Rosa, CA logged 3 reports in the single month of January 2017.
In context
- One of 122 documented reports from Santa Rosa, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 594 sightings in 2017.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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