Disk over Santa Maria, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My mom and I were headed back from Ventura California in the morning and when we were on the freeway we saw purple lights and took a photo. I forgot all about this event until the photo came up on my photo reel. In the photo there are multiple disk like objects. There are the more obvious ones closer to the top left. However there are also smaller clusters of these lights throughout the middle to the mid right of the photo. They were all emoting blue/purple light except for a flash of red light in the distance near the mid left of the photo. There is a bit of a glare from the car window but there were no blue lights that could have created such clear objects.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #176318). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-03-29 → 2019-04-15
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