CaseLight2014

Santa Cruz, CA, USA

I watched three red/orange glowing lights in the sky in a triangle formation. Then one faded and disappeared. The the other two separ

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
2014-01-25
Where
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
36.974, -122.031 · exact
Slug
light-over-santa-cruz-ca-2014-eae7d1
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…

In context

  • Santa Cruz, CA shows up 76 times across the archive.
  • 869 reports came from California in 2014.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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