Santa Monica, CA, USA
STAR. AT 10 O CLOCK POSTION. LOOKING WEST TOWARD SANTA MONICA BAY JUST OVER SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS. THE ONLY STAR WITH A SOFT LIGHT.CYL
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-06-21
- Where
- Santa Monica, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 2HOURS30MIN.
- Geo
- 34.019, -118.491 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-santa-monica-ca-2005-18fda8
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
- One of 61 documented reports from Santa Monica, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 539 sightings in 2005.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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