Los Altos, CA, USA
glowing horizontal saucer-shaped light seen hovering over Los Altos Hills, CA.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-18
- Where
- Los Altos, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 37.385, -122.114 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-los-altos-ca-2009-fb3989
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…
In context
- Los Altos, CA shows up 17 times across the archive.
- 647 reports came from California in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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