San Jose, CA, USA
Bright orange-red light seen over San Jose, CA.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 720s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (47 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-10
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 12 mins
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-san-jose-ca-2009-57b60d
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
August 2009 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 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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