CaseLight2006

Foster City, CA, USA

Four people witnessed a plasma ball hover right in front of them as it changed colors and then it moved off.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-10-20
Where
Foster City, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
37.559, -122.271 · exact
Slug
light-over-foster-city-ca-2006-ef15a7
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

  • One of 7 documented reports from Foster City, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 561 sightings in 2006.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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