CaseLight2016

Santa Fe (on ranch), CA, USA

Strange moving light, making quick movements of great distance and s-shaped turns.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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  • Duration parsed: 480s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (82 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-02-14
Where
Santa Fe (on ranch), CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
8 minutes
Geo
37.842, -122.273 · exact
Slug
light-over-santa-fe-on-ranch-ca-2016-dccd0a
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  • 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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Santa Fe (on ranch), CA.
  • This case is one of 579 California reports filed in 2016.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

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