San Jose, CA, USA
I was looking towards South San Jose mountain line where many flight paths travel into S.J.C. airport. I saw a red ball travel vertica
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-12-26
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 7 seconds
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-san-jose-ca-2017-52c91c
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…
In context
- San Jose, CA shows up 277 times across the archive.
- 594 reports came from California in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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