Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Three bright orange triangular lights seen by elementary school teacher on Christmas Eve-Not Santa's sleigh.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-12-24
- Where
- Santa Rosa, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 38.440, -122.714 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-santa-rosa-ca-2012-4ca764
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 shows up 122 times across the archive.
- 758 reports came from California in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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