Santa Cruz/Aptos, CA, USA
First noticed bright small light while star-gazing at Westcliff. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of twinling star?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (64 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2009-09-17
- Where
- Santa Cruz/Aptos, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1hour 30mins
- Geo
- 36.974, -122.031 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-santa-cruz-aptos-ca-2009-0be246
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 Cruz/Aptos, CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 647 reports came from California in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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