CaseDisk1999
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Wife saw it first looking north, altitude approx. 1000-2500 feet, then lost it in marine cover. Hovered, slight climb, hover, slight cl
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
- 1999-09-19
- Where
- Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 34.421, -119.698 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-santa-barbara-ca-1999-d1a729
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Santa Barbara, CA reports filed in September 1999.
In context
- Santa Barbara, CA shows up 117 times across the archive.
- 407 reports came from California in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 7.1% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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