UFOMYST
CaseLight2009

San Diego, CA, USA

Large groupings of 7-9 or more dark orange lights-not moving but did eventually fade away. No object seen-just lights

Report quality: High77/100

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (117 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2009-01-16
Where
San Diego, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2-3 minutes that I saw
Geo
32.716, -117.165 · exact
Slug
light-over-san-diego-ca-2009-443ef3
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

8 reports came out of San Diego, CA in January 2009 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • San Diego, CA has 516 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 647 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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