Sonoma, CA, USA
Bright red pulsating light that remained motionless for a long duration, ascended and moved rapidly, red droplets falling from object
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-12-05
- Where
- Sonoma, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 mins
- Geo
- 38.292, -122.458 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-sonoma-ca-2006-fa005d
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
- One of 33 documented reports from Sonoma, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 561 sightings in 2006.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.