San Diego, CA, USA
Two reddish dots appear in the sky, move around a bit and then fade out
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-01-16
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-san-diego-ca-2005-bf3115
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 Diego, CA has 516 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 539 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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