San Diego, CA, USA
Lights (red, blue, green, white) that changed color and direction without any noticable pattern, object moved left and right.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-11-27
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 20min.
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-san-diego-ca-2009-69f94f
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
- This is one of 516 reports logged in San Diego, CA.
- This case is one of 647 California reports filed in 2009.
- Chevron craft made up 1.2% of 2000s reports, vs 1.1% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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