UFOMYST
CaseOther2012

Saratoga, CA, USA

Flash of light that lit entire nighttime sky, traveling West to East. Followed by a power flicker of at least 25 miles.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (119 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-01-12
Where
Saratoga, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
3-4 seconds
Geo
37.264, -122.023 · exact
Slug
other-over-saratoga-ca-2012-b90d00
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 7 documented reports from Saratoga, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 758 sightings in 2012.
  • Other sightings ran at 6.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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