CaseLight2007
Arroyo Grande, CA, USA
Mysterious light observed near Vandenberg AFB
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (45 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-02-23
- Where
- Arroyo Grande, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 35.119, -120.591 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-arroyo-grande-ca-2007-5b80d5
Wave
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 16 reports logged in Arroyo Grande, CA.
- This case is one of 587 California reports filed in 2007.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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