Vista, CA, USA
Several bright colored orange balls of light floating north, about 1/4 mile high. No noise or trails.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-12-25
- Where
- Vista, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- ~3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.200, -117.243 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-vista-ca-2014-57828f
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…
Local cluster
Vista, CA logged 3 reports in the single month of December 2014.
In context
- One of 41 documented reports from Vista, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 869 sightings in 2014.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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