CaseFormation2015
San Clemente, CA, USA
Mysterious formation over South Orange County Skies.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 1950s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-09-27
- Where
- San Clemente, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 25-40 minutes
- Geo
- 33.427, -117.612 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-san-clemente-ca-2015-27630c
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
- One of 39 documented reports from San Clemente, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 814 sightings in 2015.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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