UFOMYST
CaseDisk2016

Santa Maria, CA, USA

All lights appeared white that blinked in sequence around the object. May have a redlight in the middle that turned off suddenly.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (129 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-03-27
Where
Santa Maria, CA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
34.953, -120.436 · exact
Slug
disk-over-santa-maria-ca-2016-23f70e
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 38 documented reports from Santa Maria, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 579 sightings in 2016.
  • Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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