Santa Maria, CA, USA
Bright flamelike silent flame-like object seen over central coast of California,
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-11-23
- Where
- Santa Maria, CA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 34.953, -120.436 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-santa-maria-ca-2014-34bc82
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 Maria, CA has 38 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 869 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
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.