San Diego, CA, USA
Was standing on top of Sunset Cliffs overlooking the Pacific ocean. I noticed a dim red light around near where the horizon should hav
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-12-17
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10-15 minutes
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-san-diego-ca-2016-a3f3df
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 Diego, CA shows up 516 times across the archive.
- 579 reports came from California in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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