CaseLight2005

Santa Rosa, CA, USA

Saw a very bright light on an unusual course moving at relatively low altitude without making a sound.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-08-01
Where
Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 minute
Geo
38.440, -122.714 · exact
Slug
light-over-santa-rosa-ca-2005-8557a2
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…

In context

  • Santa Rosa, CA has 122 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 539 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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