San Diego, CA, USA
Two orange lights in formation over the community of Clairemont in San Diego at 8:35PM PDT
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-03-16
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-san-diego-ca-2008-e232fd
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
3 reports came out of San Diego, CA in March 2008 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- San Diego, CA has 516 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 709 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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