San Jose, CA, USA
Silent craft moving south from San Jose to Gilroy at an estimated 3,000 MPH
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-09-16
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-san-jose-ca-2012-fd4d71
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
September 2012 was a busy month for San Jose, CA: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 277 reports logged in San Jose, CA.
- This case is one of 758 California reports filed in 2012.
- Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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