UFOMYST
CaseDisk2017

san jose, CA, USA

Red lighted object hovering for extended time, made fast moves then changed into a slightly transparent large saucer and flew upwards a

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2017-05-18
Where
san jose, CA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
37.339, -121.895 · exact
Slug
disk-over-san-jose-ca-2017-3a0f34
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • san jose, CA has 277 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 594 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.8% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.