El Cajon/La Mesa, CA, USA
It was the middle of the day. I saw 5 metal helmet shaped craft flying in a diagonal upside down L formation right very quickly .
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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 (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-03-06
- Where
- El Cajon/La Mesa, CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- Seconds
- Geo
- 32.795, -116.963 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-el-cajon-la-mesa-ca-2020-d0b6df
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in El Cajon/La Mesa, CA.
- This case is one of 622 California reports filed in 2020.
- Other craft made up 6.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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