CaseDisk2017
Valley Center, CA, USA
Red disk object with the middle being translucent.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (50 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-04-06
- Where
- Valley Center, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 33.218, -117.034 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-valley-center-ca-2017-7348b1
Wave
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
- Valley Center, CA shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 594 reports came from California in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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