Santa Paula, CA, USA
This thing lit up and we could see lights all around it when it powered up to move
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 14400s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-25
- Where
- Santa Paula, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 4 hrs
- Geo
- 34.354, -119.059 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-santa-paula-ca-2009-9f0c87
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 Paula, CA shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 647 reports came from California in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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