Santa Paula, CA, USA
Three flashing lights , bright blue and red in mountains moving around in what apperared to be an oval shaped disk then to the left of
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-25
- Where
- Santa Paula, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 3 hrs
- Geo
- 34.354, -119.059 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-santa-paula-ca-2009-01fe39
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
- Santa Paula, CA has 12 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 647 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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