San Francisco, CA, USA
I was at the Ferry Building in SF watching the Blue Angels perform. A very bright star-like light caught my eye and I stared at it for
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-10-08
- Where
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 37.775, -122.419 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-san-francisco-ca-2005-367a8b
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…
Local cluster
October 2005 was a busy month for San Francisco, CA: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 241 reports logged in San Francisco, CA.
- This case is one of 539 California reports filed in 2005.
- Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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