CaseOther2015

San Pablo, CA, USA

Light coming out of cloud I thought was a helicopter with spot light behind a cloud. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2015-11-07
Where
San Pablo, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
37.962, -122.346 · exact
Slug
other-over-san-pablo-ca-2015-ad64cb
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…

In context

  • San Pablo, CA has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 814 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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