UFOMYST
CaseLight2019

Salinas, CA, USA

31 UFOs seen traveling SW to NE in a mostly evenly space row, one after the other. ((NUFORC Note: Starlink satellites? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (82 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2019-12-22
Where
Salinas, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
~15min
Geo
36.678, -121.656 · exact
Slug
light-over-salinas-ca-2019-22ff86
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 51 documented reports from Salinas, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 510 sightings in 2019.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.