San Francisco, CA, USA
Three amber ovals quicly transited the sky above San Francisco in loose formation at high altitude
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-02-04
- Where
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 60 seconds
- Geo
- 37.775, -122.419 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-san-francisco-ca-2008-0e0836
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 — 5 San Francisco, CA reports filed in February 2008.
In context
- San Francisco, CA shows up 241 times across the archive.
- 709 reports came from California in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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