San Francisco, CA, USA
A light in the sky flying in a zigzag formation that disappeared after a minute or so.
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: 75s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-01-02
- Where
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 75 seconds
- Geo
- 37.775, -122.419 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-san-francisco-ca-2012-53e96f
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 San Francisco, CA reports filed in January 2012.
In context
- San Francisco, CA shows up 241 times across the archive.
- 758 reports came from California in 2012.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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