San Jose, CA, USA
Bright object over mt umunhum, vertically rises, saucer shaped object over san jose.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-10-03
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-san-jose-ca-2012-53d00a
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
3 reports came out of San Jose, CA in October 2012 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- San Jose, CA has 277 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 758 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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