CaseLight2016

Santa Rosa, CA, USA

My husband and I watched 4 orange lights fly slowly and quietly towards us over a fairly busy intersection.As they ascended the lights

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-02-19
Where
Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
38.440, -122.714 · exact
Slug
light-over-santa-rosa-ca-2016-6177da
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 shows up 122 times across the archive.
  • 579 reports came from California in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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