San Jose, CA, USA
Teardrop shaped, gold metallic in color, clear sky, 13:38 afternoon, did not roll, tumble,or change direction
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 42s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-02-21
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 40 to 45 seconds
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-san-jose-ca-2008-a7a771
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
February 2008 was a busy month for San Jose, CA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 277 reports logged in San Jose, CA.
- This case is one of 709 California reports filed in 2008.
- Teardrop craft made up 1.1% of 2000s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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