CaseLight2010

Escondido, CA, USA

The object if you can picture it was the color of one of those yellow or streetlights lights in the sky. Also the flight pattern was ex

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-09-17
Where
Escondido, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
33.119, -117.086 · exact
Slug
light-over-escondido-ca-2010-b8515b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

In context

  • Escondido, CA shows up 79 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 days

Report

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