Pt. Sur (50 miles off), CA, USA
Was traveling down the coast of California from San Francisco to Long Beach on the tugboat I work on. I saw two bright lights in the sk
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-12-07
- Where
- Pt. Sur (50 miles off), CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
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- Slug
- flash-over-pt-sur-50-miles-off-ca-2016-9466a0
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Pt. Sur (50 miles off), CA.
- This case is one of 579 California reports filed in 2016.
- Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
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