CaseLight2016

San Diego, CA, USA

I was sitting on my front porch when I witnessed two objects flying from south to north at an apparent high rate of speed at about 50-5

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2016-01-05
Where
San Diego, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5-10 seconds
Geo
32.716, -117.165 · exact
Slug
light-over-san-diego-ca-2016-90f8cb
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 San Diego, CA reports filed in January 2016.

In context

  • San Diego, CA shows up 516 times across the archive.
  • 579 reports came from California in 2016.
  • 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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