Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Just now my son and his friends came running in yelling that there are two red ufos out front.I ran out to the back yard because it was
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-12-31
- Where
- Santa Rosa, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 38.440, -122.714 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-santa-rosa-ca-2012-c1a836
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 Rosa, CA has 122 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 758 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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