San Francisco, CA, USA
VERY BRIGHT, warm white light and pretty large, low on the Western horizon as if it was a prominent planet about to set.
Report quality: Moderate59/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-10-26
- Where
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 secconds
- Geo
- 37.775, -122.419 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-san-francisco-ca-2005-1c0f55
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
4 reports came out of San Francisco, CA in October 2005 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- San Francisco, CA has 241 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 539 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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