UFOMYST
CaseDisk2004

San Mateo, CA, USA

Black saucer, hovering 200-300 feet from ground.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (48 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-03-28
Where
San Mateo, CA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
one minute
Geo
37.563, -122.326 · exact
Slug
disk-over-san-mateo-ca-2004-aeaafd
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 19 reports logged in San Mateo, CA.
  • This case is one of 568 California reports filed in 2004.
  • Disk craft made up 6.5% of 2000s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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