San Diego, CA, USA
Two circular crafts with blue circular lights were seen in San Diego on 21 March 2009 40 mins after midnight.
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-03-21
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 7 minute
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-san-diego-ca-2009-97a6a5
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
- One of 516 documented reports from San Diego, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 647 sightings in 2009.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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