CaseTeardrop2012
Santa Rosa (45 min. E of; Hwy. 12), CA, USA
Fast flameing object spotted.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 50s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (29 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-02-01
- Where
- Santa Rosa (45 min. E of; Hwy. 12), CA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 50 seconds
- Geo
- 38.440, -122.714 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-santa-rosa-45-min-e-of-hwy-12-ca-2012-84cc68
Wave
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 (45 min. E of; Hwy. 12), CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 758 sightings in 2012.
- Teardrop sightings ran at 0.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).
Report
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