CaseCylinder2021

Santa Paula, CA, USA

Looking through my bedroom window, towards the North East, I saw a VERY bright light (brighter than any star I have ever seen) travelin

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-02-13
Where
Santa Paula, CA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
1 minute
Geo
34.354, -119.059 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-santa-paula-ca-2021-fe1358
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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 Paula, CA shows up 12 times across the archive.
  • 330 reports came from California in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.

Report

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