San Francisco, CA, USA
Bright light in the sky then dims out and vanishes as it moves south and east. ((NUFORC Note: Possible satellite?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2013-06-21
- Where
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 37.775, -122.419 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-san-francisco-ca-2013-840ec0
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
June 2013 was a busy month for San Francisco, CA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 241 reports logged in San Francisco, CA.
- This case is one of 728 California reports filed in 2013.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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