San Clemente, CA, USA
Heading towards LA on the fwy, object with three lights suddenly was in front of us, coming towards us head on. Right before it hit us
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-26
- Where
- San Clemente, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 33.427, -117.612 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-san-clemente-ca-2017-1022e9
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 39 reports logged in San Clemente, CA.
- This case is one of 594 California reports filed in 2017.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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