Santa Cruz, CA, USA
SINCE OCTOBER 29TH, A PAIR OF LIGHTS HAVE RETURNED TO SANTA CRUZ EACH NIGHT. THEY DO NOT APPEAR OR BEHAVE AS PLANETS
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-11-14
- Where
- Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 36.974, -122.031 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-santa-cruz-ca-2021-54ce76
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 Cruz, CA shows up 76 times across the archive.
- 330 reports came from California in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 6.2% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.