San Marcos, CA, USA
we are seeing a 5 light formation in a cross pattern for many minutes with little red lights erratically flying around the right side
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-11-13
- Where
- San Marcos, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 33.143, -117.166 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-san-marcos-ca-2007-48935e
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
- San Marcos, CA has 26 sightings on file here.
- 2007 brought 587 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
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