UFOMYST
CaseDisk2008

Solana Beach, CA, USA

Balloon-like hovering star-shaped disk hovered and drifted in a controlled manner. Did not float away like a typical helium balloon.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-07-09
Where
Solana Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
30 MINUTES
Geo
32.991, -117.271 · exact
Slug
disk-over-solana-beach-ca-2008-966602
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

  • One of 3 documented reports from Solana Beach, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 709 sightings in 2008.
  • Disk sightings ran at 6.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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