UFOMYST
CaseLight2020

Santa Cruz, CA, USA

I was actually parked on the cliffs in Aptos looking for UFOs at the time. I have neen really into the whole UFO topic for a 6ear or tw

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-05-29
Where
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20-30 minutes
Geo
36.974, -122.031 · exact
Slug
light-over-santa-cruz-ca-2020-3c79b2
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 76 reports logged in Santa Cruz, CA.
  • This case is one of 622 California reports filed in 2020.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2020s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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