Santa Barbara, CA, USA
It seemed like it was in orbit but was way too big to be the space station. It was moving towards the WNW over Santa Barbara, CA at a
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-04-08
- Where
- Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 34.421, -119.698 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-santa-barbara-ca-2009-9bf639
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 April 2009.
In context
- One of 117 documented reports from Santa Barbara, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 647 sightings in 2009.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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