UFOMYST
CaseLight2014

San Marcos/Vista, CA, USA

One light would get brighter (bigger), while this happened the other got less bright (smaller). The lights were a yellow/gold.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 50s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (126 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-08-25
Where
San Marcos/Vista, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
40-60 seconds
Geo
33.143, -117.166 · exact
Slug
light-over-san-marcos-vista-ca-2014-5bf4b5
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…

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In context

  • San Marcos/Vista, CA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 869 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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