Santa Rosa, CA, USA
My son and I were playing catch around 1pm when in the sky above his head I noticed a large white "dot." I was facing northeast.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-06-22
- Where
- Santa Rosa, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 38.440, -122.714 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-santa-rosa-ca-2015-227e15
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.
- 2015 brought 814 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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