San Clemente, CA, USA
A quick round like craft in the sky and vanishing when i knoticed it while walking at night.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-04-15
- Where
- San Clemente, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- About 10 seconds
- Geo
- 33.427, -117.612 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-san-clemente-ca-2004-ef0971
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
- San Clemente, CA has 39 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 568 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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