La Selva Beach, CA, USA
Looking at stars over Monterey Bay. Saw a very bright red light moving erratically near another white star. Appeared to be dancing in
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-07-31
- Where
- La Selva Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 36.937, -121.865 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-la-selva-beach-ca-2020-a1dbfe
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
- La Selva Beach, CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 622 reports came from California in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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