San Francisco, CA, USA
black shadowed rectangle bottom object came in from the west made U-turn back out to the west 23:27 11/15/08
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-11-15
- Where
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 37.775, -122.419 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-san-francisco-ca-2008-7f754b
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…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of San Francisco, CA in November 2008 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- San Francisco, CA has 241 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 709 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 1.6% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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