Santa Maria, CA, USA
OBSERVED A SLOW MOVING OBJECT OVER SANTA MARIA, CA. THEN IT SUDDENLY VANISHED. ((Satellite??))
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-08-28
- Where
- Santa Maria, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 min
- Geo
- 34.953, -120.436 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-santa-maria-ca-2008-1556e3
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
- Santa Maria, CA has 38 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 709 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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