Castro Valley, CA, USA
10 separate red / orange lights - possible UFO - appear and disappear over an approximately 10 minute period.
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: 660s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-12-12
- Where
- Castro Valley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10-12 minutes
- Geo
- 37.694, -122.086 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-castro-valley-ca-2012-88ff3e
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
- One of 32 documented reports from Castro Valley, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 758 sightings in 2012.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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