UFOMYST
CaseOther2009

San Clemente, CA, USA

i was getting ready to go to bed and looked out my window and saw a bright yellow, orange,ball of light. I thought nothing about itunti

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-07-17
Where
San Clemente, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
33.427, -117.612 · exact
Slug
other-over-san-clemente-ca-2009-153d71
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 Clemente, CA has 39 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 647 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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