El Cajon, CA, USA
3 red lights in sky new years 2010
Report quality: High74/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (34 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 5 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-01-01
- Where
- El Cajon, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10min
- Geo
- 32.795, -116.963 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-el-cajon-ca-2010-503735
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 El Cajon, CA reports filed in January 2010.
In context
- El Cajon, CA shows up 87 times across the archive.
- 605 reports came from California in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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