San Diego, CA, USA
Sitting in backyard with friend, looked up and saw metal orb. It was like pin prick size in the sky. Looked like it changed shape.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-06-17
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-san-diego-ca-2017-4162b5
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 San Diego, CA reports filed in June 2017.
In context
- San Diego, CA shows up 516 times across the archive.
- 594 reports came from California in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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