Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Two very large glowing objects (one red, the other orange) stationary in the night sky, two appearances over about 15-20 minutes.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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 (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1989-07-26
- Where
- Santa Rosa, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 38.440, -122.714 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-santa-rosa-ca-1989-ab341a
Part of a wave
The Belgian Triangle Wave
Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)
The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…
In context
- Santa Rosa, CA has 122 sightings on file here.
- 1989 brought 32 reports from California.
- The 1980s skewed 8.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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