San Jose, CA, USA
Separated twin lights with "cigar" shape. Both ships moved N to NW. One stopped above flight path of SJC Airport.((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-15
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- Currently still going
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-san-jose-ca-2017-fd70ee
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 has 277 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 594 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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