San Francisco, CA, USA
observed v-shaped formation moving from ENE to W over evening sky for approx 10seconds
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-03-02
- Where
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10 sec
- Geo
- 37.775, -122.419 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-san-francisco-ca-2008-aa6da2
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
San Francisco, CA logged 4 reports in the single month of March 2008.
In context
- One of 241 documented reports from San Francisco, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 709 sightings in 2008.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 3.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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