UFOMYST
CaseLight2019

Santa Maria, CA, USA

I was parked behind the movie theater and was looking towards the north east and saw a light like a star but much closer then a star I

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2019-12-28
Where
Santa Maria, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
34.953, -120.436 · exact
Slug
light-over-santa-maria-ca-2019-422249
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…

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In context

  • Santa Maria, CA has 38 sightings on file here.
  • 2019 brought 510 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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