Sebastopol, CA, USA
Looked like a satellite,but much faster than I have ever seen. It came from the western horizon.
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-02-21
- Where
- Sebastopol, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 38.402, -122.824 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-sebastopol-ca-2017-394b6c
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
- Sebastopol, CA has 24 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 594 reports from California.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.