Bonsall, CA, USA
UFO spotted by flight instructor and student pilot over San Diego. ATC confirmed no radar contact. ((NUFORC Note: Pilot report. PD))
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-06-13
- Where
- Bonsall, CA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.289, -117.226 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-bonsall-ca-2021-e38287
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
- Bonsall, CA has 6 sightings on file here.
- 2021 brought 330 reports from California.
- The 2020s skewed 3.1% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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