San Jose, CA, USA
2 orange balls of light/fire hovering over east hills area
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-09-02
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-san-jose-ca-2012-63c2ed
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 San Jose, CA reports filed in September 2012.
In context
- San Jose, CA shows up 277 times across the archive.
- 758 reports came from California in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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