San Jose, CA, USA
1 orb and two orbs that changed shape into moonlike objects. ((NUFORC Note: We believe the objects are clusters of balloons. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2011-04-15
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 4 min
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-san-jose-ca-2011-391fab
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
San Jose, CA logged 4 reports in the single month of April 2011.
In context
- One of 277 documented reports from San Jose, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 624 sightings in 2011.
- Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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