UFOMYST
CaseFormation2010

El Cajon, CA, USA

Three red lights over the San Diego area - IT'S A HOAX YET AGAIN!!

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 5 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2010-01-01
Where
El Cajon, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
15 min.
Geo
32.795, -116.963 · exact
Slug
formation-over-el-cajon-ca-2010-f7d36b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

January 2010 was a busy month for El Cajon, CA: 5 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 87 reports logged in El Cajon, CA.
  • This case is one of 605 California reports filed in 2010.
  • Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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