Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Living on the 154 came out the house with my friend and saw a white cloud that left a blue glowing trail flying north almost right abov
Report quality: High73/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-11-07
- Where
- Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 34.421, -119.698 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-santa-barbara-ca-2015-35ed56
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
Santa Barbara, CA logged 3 reports in the single month of November 2015.
In context
- One of 117 documented reports from Santa Barbara, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 814 sightings in 2015.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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