San Mateo, CA, USA
2 bright streaks of light with dark object above them observed in clear, cloudless sky.
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-05-17
- Where
- San Mateo, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5-7 minutes
- Geo
- 37.563, -122.326 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-san-mateo-ca-2006-c02776
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 Mateo, CA has 19 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 561 reports from California.
Report
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