Monterey/San Francisco (between; in-flight sighting), CA, USA
WE WERE WATCHING THE MOUNTAINS FROM OUR WINDOW IN OUR FLIGHT FROM MONTEREY TO SAN FRANCISCO NOVEMBER ELEVEN 2009 AND BELOW US WE SAW
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-11-11
- Where
- Monterey/San Francisco (between; in-flight sighting), CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- TWO MINUTES
- Geo
- 36.600, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-monterey-san-francisco-between-in-flight-sighting-ca-2009-d9a83c
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
- Monterey/San Francisco (between; in-flight sighting), CA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 647 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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