Santa Monica, CT, USA
A witness near Santa Monica, Connecticut reported a very bright light zig-zagging rapidly across the sky before zooming straight up, within a few seconds, in January 1954.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (171 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1954-01-15
- Where
- Santa Monica, CT, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- few seconds
- Geo
- 34.019, -118.491 · fallback
- Slug
- light-over-santa-monica-ct-1954-ec0855
Part of a wave
The Great French Wave
France, spilling into Italy, Spain, and Latin America
The densest close-encounter wave ever recorded: landed domed objects on country roads, paralysis beams, and small suited occupants, reported by farmers and gendarmes across rural France at a rate of several per night.…
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Santa Monica, CT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Connecticut logged 1 sightings in 1954.
- Light sightings ran at 11.5% during the 1950s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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