Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Medium altitude white light speeds horizontally over ocean before breaking into 3 parts before disappearing.
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-11-10
- Where
- Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 34.421, -119.698 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-santa-barbara-ca-2015-595b1a
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…
Local cluster
November 2015 was a busy month for Santa Barbara, CA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 117 reports logged in Santa Barbara, CA.
- This case is one of 814 California reports filed in 2015.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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