Santa Rosa / Novato, CA, USA
Luminescent blue "lozenge" flew across nose of airplane at night. 6-8 feet long. Santa Rosa / Novato, CA
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-09-29
- Where
- Santa Rosa / Novato, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 38.440, -122.714 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-santa-rosa-novato-ca-2004-860e18
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 1 documented reports from Santa Rosa / Novato, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
- Oval sightings ran at 4.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 4.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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