San Jose, CA, USA
Bright triangle formation fading away slowly in day light.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-12-12
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-san-jose-ca-2013-93a559
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
San Jose, CA logged 4 reports in the single month of December 2013.
In context
- One of 277 documented reports from San Jose, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 728 sightings in 2013.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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